The Ghost of Flight 666 by Christopher Anderson

Author:Christopher Anderson [Anderson, Christopher]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-01-22T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 18: Leads and Leagues

Jean Brueget and his wife Margareta joined Slade on the rail after Eva disappeared. Margareta was a tall willowy brunette from the south of France. She came from money and had perfectly graceful manners. She contrasted with Jean, who in a well-tailored but slightly disheveled light grey suit, a ginger mustache and unruly hair, looked like an overworked cop—which he was.

Jean shook his head, lighting up a cigarette. “Eva is eccentric and over her head. Yet with a father like she has no one is likely to cause her harm, unless it is the jihadists.”

“Who is her father,” Slade asked?

“Soekarno,” Jean told him. “She is one of the hordes of illegitimate Soekarno children, but he doesn’t forget them. They become loyal parts of his global organization.”

“Jean, you sound worried about her,” Margareta observed.

He shrugged, and told his wife, “Perhaps I am. She is, as I said, in over her head. That cannot end well. It’s a pity. He will never release her.” Jean flicked his cigarette into the Seine. “Come, let us go back in and have some coffee.”

After the cruise, instead of taking Slade back to his hotel Brueget brought him to their apartment. His office had a secure computer setup that allowed Slade to download the contents of Eva’s phone. Unbeknownst to her as soon as she passed Slade the conditions for the deal Slade’s CIA programmed phone secreted a worm in her device. That worm gave Slade access to everything on Eva’s phone and everything connected to it, including her laptop.

The computer screen lit up and Slade went straight to his company icon. “Half a moment,” he said patiently. The file that Eva sent him was there and intact. When the anti-virus software finished running its check a question bar popped up. It was a simple request consisting of one word: “Trace?”

Jeremiah stabbed it. At once the software went looking for the sender of the message. Once it had that it pried open a link to the device and every computer it had connections with.

“We’re in,” Jeremiah said.

Brueget’s computer sorted Eva’s files according to their interests. Something popped up immediately, causing Slade to comment, “Why are the Iranians dealing with Eva through Freddy when they’re already dealing with her in the open. There’s Nikahd dealing with her on another account.”

“Maybe that account will tell us,” Jean said, opening the file labelled Felis Margarita and reading the summary. “C'est incroyable! This is interesting. Soekarno is setting up a zoo in the poor section of Jakarta. One of the exhibits is Felis Margarita. It is native to Iran and Soekarno wanted Iranian material for the exhibit. Therefore, Eva contracted the Iranians and Nikahd for—listen to this—sand.”

“Sand, you’re kidding.”

“She arranged the procurement of three hundred-fifty thousand pounds of sand from Iran for the exhibit. It is apparently so important to Soekarno that he is using the freighter Galaxus. The captain of the ship is a man named Christian Fletcher.”

“What’s special about him, besides the Mutiny on the Bounty jokes?”

“Christian Fletcher is married to our very own Eva Accompando.

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