Conviction (2009) by Tom - Splinter Cell 05 Clancy

Author:Tom - Splinter Cell 05 Clancy [Clancy, Tom - Splinter Cell 05]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2011-03-17T20:23:51+00:00

Chapter 20.

MADRID, SPAIN

"IT'S possible," Fisher told Grim, "but I've never been a big believer in coincidences."

"Me neither," she replied from the LCD screen. "With luck, I'll have something for you in a few hours."

The night before, after dumping the keys to the gray compact in the sewer, Fisher had walked back toward the center of town, stopping briefly to buy a newspaper, in which he wrapped his blood-speckled polo shirt. When he reached the bullring, the community party was in full swing and a huge bonfire was burning. He tossed the newspaper and shirt into the blaze, then spent fifteen minutes dancing and drinking and generally making a spectacle of himself before walking to another convenience store, this one close to his hotel. He used the pay phone to dial 112--Spain's version of 911--and told the dispatcher in hurried Spanish that he'd heard gunfire near the intersection of Cuesta de los Yeseros and Calle del Alamillo Bajo. He'd then hung up and returned to his hotel.

The choice to call the police and remain in town rather than simply driving away was a tactical gamble, Fisher knew, but given Chinchon's size a foreigner leaving town in the dead of the night following a brutal triple murder wouldn't go unnoticed.

Fisher completed the ruse by waking up before dawn the next day, dropping his packed duffel bag off the balcony, and stopping in the lobby to ask the clerk when the bullfight was to begin and how to reach Guadalupe and whether the monastery there was open to the public. Once out the door he picked up his duffel, walked to his car, and drove away, taking the M-404 west out of town before turning north at Ciempozuelos and heading for Madrid and the Third Echelon safe house, where he packaged up his take from van der Putten's killers and sent it via International Next Flight Out. Grim had the package sixteen hours later.

"One thing I can tell you is that the SD card you got from van der Putten's safe looks like bank account info," Grim now said. "As you'd expect, he had several--two of them hidden behind front companies. I'm working on it. If Ames paid him in anything other than cash, it should be there."

"Good."

"Back to our noncoincidental coincidence: It could mean either Noboru or Ames was lying about van der Putten."

"It's worse than that," Fisher replied. "It means one of them is the mole."

THERE were a few seconds of silence as Grimsdottir absorbed this. On the screen, her brows furrowed and she let out a sigh. "It could be worse than that. If van der Putten wasn't the source of the lead that pointed Hansen and his team to Vianden, that leaves only three people who could've tipped off Ames: me, Moreau, and Kovac."

"You know who gets my vote," Fisher replied. "The question is, did he do it to make you look bad, or is it something else?"

"Such as?"

"Ernsdorff. When did you tell Kovac I was moving toward Vianden?"

"About four hours before Ames got his tip.

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