[Cold War 02.0] Rasputin's Legacy by Lee Jackson

Author:Lee Jackson [Jackson, Lee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Thriller
ISBN: 9781936587025
Goodreads: 35516927
Publisher: Stonewall Publishers, LLC
Published: 2017-07-28T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 33

Collins wiped his palm across the top of his head to ensure that his few straggling hairs were in place. Upon receiving his boarding pass for his flight to rendezvous with President Reagan, he meandered toward the gate. He was tired, and boarding the Concorde was always easy.

He chose not to think much about his impending visit to the Oval Office. In his profession, access was everything, and a meeting with the President of the United States was the holy grail of journalism.

The president knew him by name, as they had met on more than one occasion. He had also interviewed another president several years ago in the Oval Office, so the trappings of neither the office nor the man awed him. From Collins’ perspective, they each performed their respective jobs as best they could. Still, the honor was great, even under these circumstances.

He stopped in a store and browsed the books; he might need a novel to help him sleep on the flight. Finding a suitable one, he moved to the checkout counter. Other customers were ahead of him, so he let his mind wander while he glanced about at passengers hurrying past the store.

Perhaps because of the intensity of three men moving toward the Aeroflot gates, or maybe because his subconscious mind recognized something familiar about them, they captured his attention. He almost gasped. One of them was Atcho. The other two were the men he had helped from the plane two days earlier. They looked tired. The one who had been sick on the flight from Washington looked like he had been beaten, and he walked stiffly. So, that was Atcho at the airport, and he’s with those guys.

With a line of customers still in front of him, Collins knew he would lose them if he did not move; but, recalling that Jakes had said he was under French surveillance, he was careful to appear unhurried. He left the queue, returned the book to its shelf, and meandered back out into the terminal.

He hung back and stopped occasionally to observe a piece of airport art or sculpture as he followed them. Soon they arrived at a seating area at one of the passenger waiting areas and settled in. He noted the gate number and went to one of the arrival/departure displays out of their sight. Their plane left in two hours, bound for Moscow.

He briefly considered confronting Atcho in the gate area, but dismissed the thought as unworkable. Atcho would stonewall, an unpleasant scene could ensue, and Collins would walk away knowing no more about what the men were up to than he currently did. He glanced at his watch. His own flight was scheduled to close its doors in another twenty minutes.

For the benefit of whoever tailed him, he exaggerated his gestures of concern and stepped up his pace. He arrived at his gate within five minutes, sweating and puffing, and was immediately shown aboard. There, he waited another ten minutes, rose from his seat, and made his way back to the front.

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