Roskov, book 5 by Geoff Wolak

Author:Geoff Wolak [Wolak, Geoff]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-07-27T00:00:00+00:00

Friend or foe?

An hour later, and my next visitor was less well behaved, very much less well behaved, a swaggering grey-haired Russian with two large goons as bodyguards.

‘So, the famous Roskov,’ he rudely began.

‘Kag dillar,’ I cautiously offered. ‘And welcome to our club, soon to be expanded next door. And who are the two large gentlemen behind you?’

‘My bodyguards of course.’

‘And why do you need bodyguards in my club, is your ex-wife after you?

He did not quite know how to take that, as an insult or a joke. He puffed up his chest. ‘I am rich.’

‘Stockholm is a very safe city, unless you have enemies from a few deals gone wrong.’ I waited. Out the corner of my eye I could see Carter one way and Luc the other way, Rolf hanging back with Ingrid.

‘My bodyguards are my business.’

‘Not when they are in my club, since someone might upset you … and then your bodyguards might get involved, and I don’t want such a scene in my club.’ I again waited.

Jenny walked up with a drink for me, oblivious to any issues here.

I took the drink. ‘This is Jenny Patrick from America.’

He smiled and bowed his head. ‘An honour, I have seen your TV show.’

‘What do you do?’ Jenny innocently asked.

‘I left Russia, and now I have business interests in Europe, some here in Sweden, a few hotels.’

‘Do you need some advertising done for your hotels?’ Jenny asked. ‘We’ve promoted quite a few.’

He turned to me, puzzled.

‘Yes, we can promote your hotels,’ I told him. ‘Why not, we don’t turn away work unless the client is … difficult.’

‘I will think about that, yes. Thank you for the offer.’ Jenny walked off.

I made eye contact with Luc and he walked up, and to an obvious distance, Carter closing in. My new friend took in Luc and then Carter.

‘And these gentlemen … do what?’

‘They arrest people, sometimes they shoot them first, and sometimes they check a businessman’s visa and work permit very carefully, his private details seen all over the newspapers. But that depends on the businessman, and what he does in my club with his two bodyguards.

‘So I suggest the two men sit and eat, and make themselves look small, and that they don’t touch anyone unless you are being threatening, and then I will defend you – this is my club.

‘And if you were hurt here by a beautiful girl that rejects you, I will compensate your for your injuries.’

He smiled. ‘My heart is not capable of being hurt in such a way, not for a long time.’

‘Have a nice visit, but please try and behave less like a Russian businessman. The last man I spoke to, before you, he had no bodyguards with him, but he is a billionaire. So I think you can trust my club security as well, and relax some.’

A glance at Luc, and the Russian said, ‘I would like to stay at the Gun Room in Corsica.’

‘Since you are a guest of this club, you will get to stay before many on the list.

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