The Banker's Wife by Cristina Alger

Author:Cristina Alger
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2018-07-02T16:00:00+00:00

October 20, 2015

From: Julian White

To: Hans Hoffman

Subject: HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL: see attached

We have confirmed that on at least three separate occasions over the past month and a half, Fatima Amir met with an agent from MI6. At the second meeting, her banker from Swiss United, Matthew Werner, was present. We believe that they have and will continue to provide confidential financial information regarding Fares Amir, Bashar al-Assad, and his associates to the authorities. Photos are attached.

Marina clicked open the photos. They were grainy and shot from above. They showed two men and a woman, sitting on a private balcony of what appeared to be a hotel. They sat at a table, and the woman’s face was partially obscured by the table’s umbrella. She was leaning forward, her hand atop a manila envelope. One of the men had a briefcase. In the subsequent photos, he could be seen examining the contents of the manila envelope and then placing it into his briefcase.

“So Fatima Amir was giving incriminating information about her own family to MI6?”

“Her brother is a money launderer. Her cousin’s a war criminal. Anyone who thinks their family is fucked up should meet the Amirs.”

“But our mole is from inside Schmit & Muller,” Marina pressed. “And our mole is, as far as we know, alive. So Fatima Amir and Matthew Werner were not the ones feeding information to Duncan. But it just seems like too much of a coincidence, right? That they were all killed on the same day? Something about it doesn’t sit right with me.”

“But maybe Schmit & Muller didn’t know where the leak was coming from. All they know is someone is feeding information to the authorities. And these two appear to be doing just that.”

“So she was a mole, but not our mole.”

Yael opened another screen. It showed the wreckage of a plane, its parts strewn about a glistening mountaintop. “And this is how they deal with moles.”

“Christ.”

“Plane crashed just forty-eight hours after these emails. Same day Duncan was murdered. Convenient, right?”

“If by convenient, you mean terrifying.”

“Oh, and remember Duncan’s trip to the Caymans?”

Marina nodded. “Yeah, the Schmit & Muller guys figured he had a source inside CIB.”

“Well, guess who turned up dead the day after Duncan left? Freak boating accident.”

“A CIB banker.”

“Bingo.”

“So we’ve got two dead private bankers, a dead private banking client, and a dead journalist,” Marina said, shaking her head.

“But one living mole,” Owen said, pulling up his computer. He pointed to the screen. “He’s sending us more data now. Let’s get to work. If we’re going to go to the ICIJ, we need a secure database first that can be accessed by users around the globe.”

“The source has to agree. We can’t bring in a whole team without talking to him.”

“This guy is already on borrowed time, Marina. I think he’ll come around to seeing the benefit of having the ICIJ behind him.”

“Is Christophe Martin ready to help us?”

Yael smiled. “Are you kidding? This is the story of a lifetime. For him—for all of us.

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