The Lucy Ghosts (Eddy Shah Retro Thrillers) by Shah Eddy

Author:Shah, Eddy [Shah, Eddy]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Messenger Group Ld
Published: 2012-11-04T04:30:00+00:00

Ch. 44

Dresdener Heidi

Dresden

Germany.

The black Mercedes 300 SL, chauffeur driven by a Stermabeitalung in a dark grey suit, bounced up the Strasse Otto Buckwitz. One of the main roads leading northwards towards the airport, the Strasse Otto Buckwitz was like many of the thoroughfares in what was once East Germany. Occasionally potholed, heavily cambered and uneven in construction, it was, in essence, a boneshaker.

In the back, like any two ordinary business men, sat Peter Frick and Helmut Kragan. They were on their way to a meeting, but their business was anything but ordinary.

'Did you contact all the members of the Council?' asked Frick.

'Except Lieder. He's on a skiing holiday in Val d'Isere. But I've made arrangements for him to be reached and flown back for the meeting.'

'Good. Have we had any comments from them?'

'About Mitzer. Nothing.No. I expect they will comment at the meeting.'

'We must keep them under control. Especially the older ones. Now is not the time for panic.'

'They're the ones least likely to panic. They've waited a long time for this.'

'I meant that my position must be protected. Mitzer was a romantic, a dreamer of the past. But he had influence. His contacts in the business community were second to none. He will be difficult to replace. The others know that. Somehow, I must reassure them that we can still proceed.'

'There are other industrialists sympathetic to our cause.'

'Not as powerful as Mitzer.'

'I can prepare a list of those who have shown an interest in joining us.'

'Good. But first we must clear it with the council. Make them feel that they are actively chasing Mitzer's replacement. The involvement will make them think of the future, not of the past.'

'I'll have the list ready for the meeting.'

The Mercedes had followed the line of blue prefabricated concrete slabs, the long four kilometre wall that separated the Dresdener Heidi from the Strasse Otto Buckwitz. The car pulled off the road and stopped at a gatehouse with double steel doors that blocked any unwarranted entry into the Heidi.

A Stermabeitalung in a grey suit, like that of the driver, saluted the car and signalled his colleague to swing the gate open. The Mercedes moved through the gate and into the Heidi.

The Dresdener Heidi was the city's greatest park until the Russian tanks rolled in in 1945. Within weeks they had ringed it off and turned it into their barracks. Over the years, until their withdrawal in the 1990's, they had built a vast tank training ground through the woods and parkland, thrown up a series of yellow and black painted apartment blocks, and built a 4,000 foot runway from which they flew small transport aircraft and helicopter gunships. Apart from the Army, it had also housed the KGB and other military intelligence. It had become a war zone, a death fort in a conquered city.

Large tracts of the Dresdener Heidi had been snapped up by developers when Germany was reunified. One of those developers had been Ritz Frankfurte Gmb, a subsidiary property company privately owned by Grob Mitzer.

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