The Poison (The Hunt Thrillers Book 3) by Tim Heath

Author:Tim Heath [Heath, Tim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Conundrum Publishing
Published: 2022-06-28T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 22

“Sasha speaking,” the Russian said, the number not displayed on his handset.

“It’s me,” Alex said, confirmation that he’d got the voicemail Sasha had left him a couple of hours before. “Where are you?”

“Still following the crew. They escorted a female — British, I think — to the Baltic Railway station where she boarded a train to Tallinn.” They’d watched someone on that route before. It offered a direct flight to Gatwick, once they reached the Estonian capital. “I returned to the city behind the FSB unit — my own unit, in fact. I’ll reconnect with them soon, will say I’ve been looking for them. I’ll find out where the orders came from. If I can trace it back to whichever Russian it was, we might have more to go on.”

“That’s great work, my friend.” They were keeping names as much as possible out of the call — barring his opening greeting, neither man referred to the other by name, as they didn’t know who might be listening.

“There’s one more thing. I was there when they first made the arrests, getting a good look at the teams following the Contestant. I now have a better understanding of how it all works. When I get to the office I’ll run some checks and see if I can work out who the first team are associated with. I suspect with some digging it’ll give me the name of the man at the top of that particular tree,” he said, Alex understanding he meant the oligarch within the Games. “There was a second group, too, which was interesting. They had broadcast-quality cameras, directional microphones, the lot. Really well kitted out.”

“Something to do with it as well?”

“I assume so. I’ll run their details too, see where it leads.”

“That’s wonderful. We’re still running things at this end. Pineapple is coming out next week,” which was their code name, slightly humorously suggested by Sasha for Anissa, because of the similarity of her name with that particular fruit in his own language. It worked well in this context, “I don’t need to ask you to look out for… it.” Alex didn’t want to give her a gender, which might otherwise connect Anissa to their investigation of the Games. True, she was in St Petersburg for the trial, and that implicated her enough. But he would do whatever needed to keep others from guessing anything.

“You have my word.” Alex would communicate later via their draft email process, something they’d continued to use ever since it had been suggested. He would share about his involvement with the Voronin security aspect for his trip to London later in the year. Alex really wanted to know if Sasha might be involved from the Russian side, though he doubted that would happen. Voronin probably had his own dedicated team, and even if he did use the FSB, it would be those based in Moscow. Why would they consider Sasha, based in St Petersburg with no apparent connection to the UK, as a

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