The Missing Husband by Alex Coombs

Author:Alex Coombs [Coombs, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Boldwood Books

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She quickly ran through the agenda of Project Volga, an offshoot of Tomboy, which was the monitoring of prostitution and people-trafficking from Russia and the various republics of the former Soviet Union. Amongst the older generation of government employees there was a feeling that things had been a lot simpler pre-fall of the Berlin Wall. Better, much better, from our point of view. The Cold War might have been unpleasant, but it had been kind of a Garden of Eden time with clearly defined enemies and clear boundaries. You’d known where you’d stood. It had been a more innocent, pre-Lapsarian epoch of good and bad, black and white. Now everything was a dispiriting shade of grey.

There were seven items on the agenda, actions from previous

meetings, updates on requirements and legal compliance, current status and tasks in progress, project plans, actions required, financial overviews and AOB.

Corrigan found his attention wandering. Project Volga had seemed to him a typical example of departmental time-wasting, but someone had considered it of sufficient importance to have Charlie Taverner killed. He had been killed to stop him attending a meeting rather like this, as dull as this. Just to protect the name of the vor, the Russian godfather. Taverner had been planning to produce it like a rabbit out of a hat. He wondered when Demirel would get back to him. He wondered if Demirel had found out anything worth reporting on.

He guessed he might have been naïve in blaming a police informant for Charlie’s death. The leak could easily have come from anyone around this table. Was that what had happened? The criminals had so much money to spend and there had been no pay increase for anyone in the room for several years. Had that affected someone’s morality?

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