The Company of Women by Brendan Carroll

Author:Brendan Carroll [Carroll, Brendan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Goodreads: 8702638
Publisher: Brendan Carroll
Published: 2010-07-25T23:00:00+00:00

“There is only one God and Omar is his prophet.” Abyaz greeted Jozsef and kissed him on both cheeks. “My hope is in God, your Grace.” The minister said the words of the familiar greeting that had become second nature to him by now. He did not want to appear to know too much. The General had told him nothing. Schweikert’s return had been totally unexpected, but welcomed at the time. Now, the Minister was in a quandary about what to do about the General.

Schweikert was in New Babylon again, giving orders and running the household with an iron fist. He had put out a worldwide alert and search effort for Ruth Kadif and the Prophet’s son. The world was again in an uproar over the loss of Omar’s wife and child. Sympathy, flowers and advice was flowing into the palace there by the truckload, but ‘Omar’ was seeing none of it. He was still in Kabul. His adoring public believed that he was safely ensconced in his palace in understandable isolation, mourning the abduction of his wife. Just as before, the General was producing video-taped statements from the Prophet on a regular basis. Some were simply shots of him coming and going about the palace on daily routines, but some were pleas to the general public to do everything that they could to help him find his family. These speeches were passionate and heart-breaking. They also contained condemnations for vague groups of non-specific identifications. Dissidents, terrorists, fanatics, hold-outs, criminals. No names. No defined descriptions of who might have perpetrated the deed. Never once did his speeches or the press releases mention Lavon de Bleu’s disappearance or Anna Kadif. It was as if these two had never existed and what was more, no one asked about them. This, Abyaz found very, very peculiar. Lavon had been in New Babylon for several weeks in full view of any who wished to look and the press had been having a field day trying to learn more about ‘Omar’s’ newest addition to his staff in New Babylon. Someone he called his cousin, Anna Kadif. A strikingly beautiful woman who had come literally out of thin air. And now, she was gone the same way. Babar knew that Anna Kadif was connected with Jozsef Sinclair-Ramsay more so than Omar, though she did favor the prophet somewhat, but then so did Jozsef Sinclair-Ramsay. Babar was learning more about his hero now that he was gone, than he’d ever known about him when he’s practically lived in his lap on a daily basis. It was Abyaz’ suspicion that the disappearance of Ruth and the baby was directly related to the Templars. There was no other explanation and no doubt, but he could say nothing. The General was not consulting with him, nor was he confiding in him as he had been in the past, before he’d had his little episode in the mental ward. He was the same person, but not the same.

Abyaz had to assume

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