Counter Attack by Jack Gatland

Author:Jack Gatland [Gatland, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-10-22T16:00:00+00:00

16

GRAVEROBBING

'You need to call them,' Jackson said, as Marlowe watched through the peephole. ‘Tell them we want the whole bloody place under guard.’

‘We don’t even know if he came back here! We should tell Vic we're doing this!’ Peter replied.

'Do you need to tell Vic everything?' Jackson answered mockingly. 'You said you were ready for Orchid. Are you telling me now that perhaps we should just let you go?'

'He's a member of the High Council now.’

'His father made him nothing. He's no more Orchid than the Rubicon bitch who stood beside him.’

At this, Marlowe saw Tessa straighten out of the corner of his eye, and he waved her down.

‘As you said, she’s Rubicon. You can't deny that,’ Peter argued through the door.

'I can deny whatever I damn well want to,' Jackson was looking up and down the corridor now. 'I came into the service with Oliver Casey, and he killed him, unarmed and in cold blood, on a motorway in front of witnesses. He was trying to bring us down, destroy us. You've been in Orchid what, ten minutes? Don’t start telling me what Orchid wants to or doesn't want to do. What they want is Marlowe dead, and McKay kept in power until the election.’

‘You don’t know that.’

‘Caldwell said it himself, right before Delacroix started talking,’ Jackson hissed, confirming Harrison Caldwell had been in the gardens that night. ‘McKay’s useful until the debate. After that it’s anyone’s guess.’

‘Well, we’ll find out when the debate happens, won’t we? If the High Council want him gone, he’ll be removed. Simple as that.’ Peter was strangely argumentative, and Marlowe wondered whether this was because he didn’t like Jackson, or because he believed what he said.

They both looked down the corridor now and as Jackson looked around his eyes scanned across the door opposite him.

Marlowe wanted to shrink away as Jackson’s gaze met his eye. He knew that if he moved, a slight change in light might reflect through the peephole, and Jackson would know he was being watched.

'Find out from the hotel where they'd be staying,' Jackson said, looking away. 'Marlowe likes to book backup rooms. Check if there's one here. Or if he's gone somewhere else, find out where Marshall and Tessa Kirk are staying. He may have gone with them, too. And check that computer bitch. She'd go for something stupidly cheap, even though she has expensive tastes.'

Trix, who could hear what was being said across the door, glanced up indignantly, but had the good sense not to reply.

Marlowe waited, watching the two men leave before turning back to the others.

'We give them ten minutes, and then we leave. This is serious now.'

'Where do we go?' Marshall said.

‘Helen Bonneville has identities for us,' Marlowe replied. 'We take them, we use them to go to Dublin.'

'What about me?' Brad asked.

'You're not technically part of this, Brad,' Marlowe said. 'Go back to Sasha, tell her you met with us, and tell her what you think she needs to know, especially about Caldwell. Against my better will, I trust you to do the right thing.

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