The Abduction: A Novel by Jonathan Holt

Author:Jonathan Holt [Holt, Jonathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780062267047
Amazon: 0062267043
Barnesnoble: 0062267043
Publisher: Harper
Published: 2014-06-03T05:00:00+00:00

FORTY-TWO

“SO NOW THEY think Carver could have something to do with it?”

Holly shook her head. “That’s putting it too strongly. They’re professionals – they accept it might be nothing more than a coincidence. But they’ve asked me to find out who else he shared his reports with besides Sagese.”

“Hmm.” Gilroy pushed himself up from the table he was propping himself against and took a turn around the classroom, his hands in his pockets. “So the implication is, far from it being an anti-American terror group behind the kidnap, it could be some murky scheme we’re pursuing amongst ourselves.”

She’d updated Gilroy on her abortive date with Daniele, but it was this new initiative from Piola and Kat he seemed most interested in.

“Could it?” she asked quietly.

“I don’t see how.” He looked at her. “But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t investigate. Hopefully, as you say, it will be nothing more than due diligence.”

She sighed. “But what I don’t see is how I actually do this. It’s not like I can just walk up to Colonel Carver and demand to interrogate him.”

“No. But there are two parts to this hypothesis of theirs. One is that Carver himself could be the link. The other is that Mia wasn’t just picked at random. That might be your way in – tell Carver you’re trying to establish why the kidnappers went to such extraordinary lengths to target her.”

“I’ll see what I can do.”

“And the next question,” he continued, “will be what to do if you find anything.”

“Sir?”

“Even if you find something that vindicates their approach, it may not be in America’s interest to pass it back to the Carabinieri. If it were something that discredits us, for example, and could thus put troops’ lives at risk…” He paused. “It might be best for the Carabinieri to feel that this isn’t a particularly relevant or fruitful avenue of investigation, at least for now.”

She saw what he was telling her, and was silent.

He nodded. “In other words, Holly, you should give your friends the impression that the lead Mazzanti has furnished them with – that the USAF itself could somehow be involved with the kidnap – is a dead end. Whilst, of course, continuing to pursue it to the very best of your ability. Can you do that?”

“I think so,” she said hesitantly. “If I can bring anything I find back to you.”

“Of course. Share everything with me, and meanwhile let’s be cautious who else we speak to.”

As she turned to go, he said, “One other thing… How was it that a full colonel of the Carabinieri came to be investigating the break-in at Dal Molin in the first place?”

“Oh…” She told him about the skeleton. “It seems like that was the only unpredictable thing in the whole operation,” she added. “When Mazzanti sent the protestors into the construction site, he could never have known they’d come across something like that.”

“Indeed.” He rubbed his hand thoughtfully over his chin. “If I was Colonel Piola, I’d be looking very closely at that.

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