The Kremlin's Vote: a spy conspiracy thriller (A Jayne Robinson Thriller, Book 1) by Andrew Turpin

Author:Andrew Turpin [Turpin, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Write Direction Publishing
Published: 2021-02-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Five

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Moscow

“Of course, it was the lying FSB. Who writes this shit?” Grewall said as he threw the newspaper across the room.

The headline over the story, buried halfway down page nine in the Russian-language paper, read Drunk Hit-And-Run Driver Kills Pedestrian. The article, only six paragraphs long, was based on a briefing given by a police spokesman and did not identify the victim, saying only that she was thought to be an American visitor.

Jayne stood, hands on hips, not knowing what to say. She felt another wave of revulsion rise up inside her and looked down at the floor. There was silence from the other three CIA officers who had gathered at the safe house where Jayne was staying.

It seemed like a quiet moment of tribute, of respect, for Yvonne Broad, who, in attempting to divert the attention of the FSB’s surveillance team that was pursuing Jayne and Shevchenko, had been mown down by the rapidly accelerating car as she emerged onto the street.

Whether the FSB driver had driven into her deliberately or accidentally was impossible to say. The Moscow police dealing with the incident had put up a wall of silence, doubtless under instruction from on high.

Jayne had more or less guessed what had happened, but the scenario had been confirmed by the other CIA countersurveillance officer, Chris Joint, who had seen it unfold from the other side of the park.

As Jayne and Shevchenko ran for cover, Broad had seemingly realized what was going on and sprinted from the street corner where she had been posted with her cigarette and phone across the park. She had run through the trees and into the melee that developed as the chase heated up, intending to distract or confuse the Russians.

But Yvonne had been hit full on by the fast-moving FSB car, sending her spinning more than ten meters forward into the windshield of a parked van.

Yvonne had effectively given up her life to save Jayne’s, because it was assumed the only reason the FSB had halted their pursuit was because they immediately recognized who Yvonne was and the need to cover up what had happened. She would have been known to the FSB, without any doubt, and there would be detailed files on her at the Lubyanka, complete with multiple photographs.

The incident had allowed Jayne the time to make it onto the train and out of the station. She had traveled two stops south, exited the train, and then made her way on foot through a tangle of narrow streets to the nearest bus station, from where she had returned to the safe house.

It appeared that the FSB had simply departed the scene, placing the mess in the hands of police. A classic cover-up of the type that they had all seen before from the Russians.

It also flew in the face of the unwritten traditional rule that intelligence services do not inflict violence on members of rival services, much less kill them.

Whether Broad’s sacrifice had also saved the life of Shevchenko was not yet known.

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