The Cylon Curse by Kennedy J. Robert

Author:Kennedy, J. Robert [Kennedy, J. Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Action & Adventure
Amazon: B07F4D5RLB
Goodreads: 40691040
Publisher: J. Robert Kennedy
Published: 2018-07-28T07:00:00+00:00

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Outside the Damos Residence Athens, Greece

Utkin lowered his binoculars, glancing at Tankov. “Good idea watching him.”

Tankov grunted as they watched the fence, Damos, stuffed into the back of a car, clearly against his will. “I do have one occasionally.”

Utkin chuckled as he started the engine. “Occasionally.” He jabbed a thumb in Tankov’s direction. “That new face wasn’t one of them.”

Tankov lowered his binoculars, running a hand over his plastic surgeon’s latest creation as Utkin followed their target. “I thought it looked pretty good.”

“Do you even remember what you looked like before we got into this business?”

Tankov grunted. He had to admit sometimes he wasn’t sure who stared back at him in the mirror anymore. Sometimes he’d catch a reflection in a store window, or the rearview mirror, and it would startle him, giving him a strange out of body experience that was more disturbing than anything else.

But it was his chosen method of staying anonymous. If his identity was revealed on a job, he had his face redone. It was simple, and a lot more convenient than constantly living in hiding. The only time it ever concerned him was when he visited his mother.

She cried every time, inevitably bringing out the photo album. “You looked like your father! Why would you do this?”

He dared not tell her the truth, instead telling her it was a necessity from his days in Spetsnaz. That she could accept, her belief system rooted in the old Soviet one—she understood sacrificing for the state. If she knew the truth, that he was an international art thief, wanted by pretty much every police force in the world, it would break her heart.

And he could never have that.

He pointed at the vehicle. “Let’s forget about my face, and worry about where they’re headed.”

Utkin nodded. “And about why they took him.”

Tankov agreed. “I don’t think they have it.”

“Why?”

“Why kidnap the fence? If they had it, they’d just deliver it and move on, or keep it for themselves, and move on. Either way, the fence is no longer of any value. He’s just the guy who made the introductions. Even if they wanted to sell it, he wouldn’t be the one you went to. He’s small-time.”

“So then why?”

“Well, if they don’t have it, then they must be thinking he might know who does.”

“He double-crossed them?”

“Possibly. He’s a colossal idiot if he did. You don’t cross people like this.”

Utkin frowned. “Didn’t our intel report on him say he had a wife and kid?”

Tankov nodded. “Maybe an anonymous call to the police is in order.”

“Maybe.”

Tankov arranged it as they continued to tail the kidnapped Damos, and were soon in a residential neighborhood of questionable pedigree. He smiled as the car parked and the doors opened. “Looks like we’re here.”

Utkin drove past them, finding a spot farther down the street. “Lovely neighborhood.”

Tankov had to agree it wasn’t somewhere he’d want to live, but it was exactly the type of place where nobody would pay attention to anything their neighbors did. “Call in the team.

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