in the business

Author:Saif
Format: mobi
Published: 2010-03-24T17:19:45+00:00

THE BOMBMAKER

cellular phone which Andy had dropped. 'Find out who the

fuck she was calling!' Egan shouted. He hauled her into the main

office area, where O'Keefe was watching openmouthed.

McCracken called up last number dialled and peered at it.

'Ireland,' she said. 'Dublin. She was calling her husband.'

Egan pulled Andy to the middle of the office and then let go

of her hair. She flopped on to her side, snoring softly as if she

were in a deep sleep. Egan drew back his foot and kicked her

hard in the stomach. There was no reaction.

'What's happening?' asked O'Keefe.

'The bitch was on the phone,' said Egan. He turned to

McCracken. 'Did she call anyone else?'

McCracken checked the mobile and shook her head. 'No.

Just her husband.'

'Small mercies,' said Egan. 'What the hell was she doing with

a phone anyway?'

'I don't know. It was in the briefcase. Locked.'

'Oh, that's all right, then,' said Egan, his voice loaded with

sarcasm. 'I told you to watch her. I told you not to trust her.'

'I wasn't the only one here,' said McCracken. She flashed

O'Keefe an angry look and he turned away, not wanting to be

drawn into an argument.

'You were in charge, Lydia.' He knelt down by Andy's side

and began slapping her face, trying to bring her round.

David Bingham almost had to jog to keep up with Patsy as she

walked through the reception area of Thames House. Directly

behind her was the SAS captain and two of his troopers carrying

kit-bags, and bringing up the rear were Denham and Martin.

'There've only been three that come anywhere close to a

four-thousand-pound device,' panted Bingham. 'The Baltic

Exchange, Bishopsgate, and Canary Wharf. The Baltic Exchange

bomb caused a third of a billion pounds of damage,

Bishopsgate half a billion, and Canary Wharf a billion. The

Canary Wharf bomb was one thousand pounds. All were

detonated outside, so there was shrapnel damage over a wide

area. If the bomb is detonated inside a building, it's confined to a

smaller area but the damage will be greater. The building could

come down. Depending on the direction of the blast, the

building could fall vertically, which is what professional demolition

firms try to do, or it could topple.'

They walked out of the building. Lined up in front of

Thames House were a dozen large saloons, each with a driver.

Patsy pointed to a black Rover. 'Liam, you and Martin take this

one. Wait for Barbara and Tim -- they'll be right down. Barbara

knows where we'll be.'

Denham nodded, and he and Martin climbed into the

Rover. Patsy, Bingham, the SAS captain and one of the troopers

got into another Rover. The second trooper went over to

Denham's Rover.

Patsy took the front seat. Bingham sat in the middle of the

rear seat between the captain and the trooper and continued his

briefing as the car accelerated eastwards, towards the financial

district.

'Initial damage will be the blast and ancillary shrapnel created

in the explosion. The extent of that is going to depend on what's

in the bomb and what's in the office. Wood, metal, glass - it'll all

get thrown through the air at hundreds of miles an hour. Every

building within half a mile could be affected. Then there's the

damage caused by the destruction of the building itself.

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