See How They Run by James Patterson

Author:James Patterson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Thrillers, FIC000000, Fiction
ISBN: 0446603929
Publisher: Vision
Published: 1997-04-30T16:00:00+00:00

Burns’s tanned, manicured hand dealt out another photograph.

Harry was beginning to feel a little bit like Ross Macdonald’s Lew Archer. What was he supposed to do now? Find the missing oil painting of the sister of the brunette Rachel Davidson?

The second photograph showed the same woman.

This time she was standing beside an older man whom Callaghan recognized immediately. In fact, seeing this particular man in the photograph sent Harry Callaghan’s mind reeling. His presence was almost as disconcerting as that of the third person in the photograph: Mrs. Elena Strauss.

“This one was taken at Cherrywoods Mountain House. That’s Mrs. Elena Strauss. And you’ll probably recognize General Yagaal Ben-Zurev.”

“Oh shit!” Callaghan set the photo down.

“You bet, ‘oh shit.’ Mrs. Davidson, the Housewife, is Ben-Zurev’s niece.”

Stroking his Dutch cigar, Harry stared down at the photo. Cherrywoods. Grandmother Strauss. Rachel Davidson. The Israeli general, Ben-Zurev.

Callaghan’s mind was already working on a few dicey little scenarios involving the mysterious Storm Troop.

Blue smoke signals rose from the table as the German waiter, Calvados, and kuchen arrived.

“Anything else, J.B.?”

“Besides being a respected and successful lawyer, Rachel Davidson is an Orthodox Jew. She was very close to General Ben-Zurev. He was found dead in Washington late this spring.”

“Yes? I’m liking this story less and less as it gathers steam.”

“We’re getting reports that Ben-Zurev was helping to control the Storm Troop from Israel. His code name was Warrior. There was some kind of rift among their top leadership. The group had a vow of secrecy that they took very seriously. Ben-Zurev was killed. The Arabs have known about it for about a month. The pricks sat on it.

“We think Mossad leaked the information to Washington. Whatever the hell Dachau Two is, they don’t want it to come off. Very, very bad stuff. Everybody is very, very edgy, Harry.”

“Is this the Agency’s up-to-the-moment evaluation?”

Burns smiled. He pursed his lips.

“Those cagey bastards haven’t made an evaluation yet. Like to hear mine? It’s all in this little folder.”

Harry Callaghan crushed out his cigar into his kuchen. “The Storm Troop is a very elaborately conceived, very dangerous Jewish terrorist group,” Harry said.

“Or Israeli,” Burns added. “An Israeli Black September that has its roots way, way back. Maybe as far back as the forties. There was a commando group back then known as DIN. DIN attempted to poison a million Germans as partial retribution for the Holocaust.”

“And this group carries on, they masquerade as neo-Nazis.”

“Because everybody goes haywire when they hear about Nazis. Because nobody can evaluate Nazi data properly. There has to be loads more to it. That’s a start I can live with, though.”

“The terrorists are going to avenge the six million?”

“I don’t know. I’m guessing something on that order.”

Harry stared from a third-floor window at an office building across the cobblestone street. The late-afternoon sun was making stars and lilac-blue rings around a flagpole.

“Harry,” J.B. Burns said, “doesn’t one thing strike you as a little odd? That Dr. David Strauss has somehow escaped two shooting attempts now?”

Callaghan looked back from across the street.

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