Jack Higgins - Dillon 07 by The White House Connection

Author:The White House Connection [Connection, The White House]
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2010-04-21T04:00:00+00:00

When he was finished, Cohan sat there, very pale. 'This has nothing to do with me.'

'Listen, you shite,' Dillon told him. 'Jack Barry was here in London last night, and why? To pick the meat off your bones.'

Cohan was really worried now, but tried to bluster. 'I know nothing of this.'

'The Sons of Erin are all dead, Senator. Now, maybe somebody just doesn't like dining clubs,' Dillon said. 'But our theory is that Jack Barry came over on a hasty trip to tidy things up, which meant stiffing you.'

It was Hannah who put in, 'But that still leaves, somewhere out there, the individual who got rid of your friends.'

'Nonsense,' Cohan told her. 'It's all rubbish. Now I demand that you leave me alone!' He swallowed the dry martini.

Ferguson said, 'So you won't cooperate. All right, Senator, have it your way. The Prime Minister and the President will be so informed. However, my instructions are to keep you alive if possible while you're in London, so we'll be there tonight at the Forum for Irish Peace doing our best to achieve that aim, whether you cooperate or not.'

'Go to hell.' Cohan got up and walked out.

Their pasta arrived. Hannah said, 'What now, sir?'

'Why, we enjoy this delicious light luncheon, return this evening and try to keep the bastard in one piece.'

'You think there could be a problem?'

'I've never been more certain of anything in my life.' Ferguson picked up a fork and turned to Dillon. 'Black tie, dear boy, do try to look civilized.'

With nowhere else to go, Cohan phoned the Connection on the coded mobile phone number and poured out everything, all his doubts, all his fears.

When he was finished, Thornton said, 'Can't you see what they're doing to you? I had an arrangement with Barry. He flew over to protect you, so they found out he was there, and he got out by the skin of his teeth, from what you say.'

'You told me I'd be safe in London.'

'You will be. I was just making doubly sure by sending Barry. Everything will be fine.'

'You said Barry would be taking care of whoever was behind the killings.'

'There's a lot going on you don't know about. Just trust me.'

'It's my hide if something goes wrong.'

'Senator, Senator — nothing will go wrong. Okay? So just calm down, relax, enjoy the party. I'll be in touch.'

Thornton hung up and immediately phoned Barry.

'I've had Cohan on in a hell of a state. He's had Ferguson and Dillon on his back. Why didn't you tell me how badly things went?'

'Because it only happened last night and I was busy getting out of England in one piece.'

'Let me hear your version.'

So Barry did, staying reasonably close to the truth. When he was finished, he said, 'It was just one of those things. How Dillon found me, I don't know.'

'A considerable nuisance, that man.'

'The army said that for twenty years and the IRA have been saying it ever since. Anyway, what about Cohan?'

'I'll have to leave him to do his own thing, I'll think of something when he returns to the States.

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