The Napoleon Job by Nick Thacker

Author:Nick Thacker [Thacker, Nick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Turtleshell Press
Published: 2020-12-13T22:00:00+00:00

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Ben

9:36 pm | March 10, 2021

London-Heathrow International Airport, London, England

Ben still felt the rush. The adrenaline hadn’t yet worn off. After they’d left the tavern and after splitting up with Freddie, Julie, and Sarah, Ben and Reggie had made their way straight to the airport on the west side of London once again to catch a redeye to Switzerland. They had stopped on the way and had gotten out their withdrawal daily limit of cash, paid the absurd fee, and vowed to do the same thing the next day. They needed to get off the grid, to make it as difficult as possible for Tennyson — and everyone else after them — to track their movements through Europe.

Ben knew that Tennyson had sent the grunts to kill his team as soon as they had sat down for a meal at the hotel restaurant. He had waited until Ben read the email, and then sent them in. The van that had taken shots at them and killed the hotel manager had also been waiting for them to emerge — a backup in case their teammates inside had not killed all of the CSO crew.

All of those facts told Ben one thing: Tennyson was watching them, and he had eyes in all the right places. They all needed to get out of the system, and fast.

Ben wasn’t sure what that meant regarding the use of their cell phones, but he would wait for Julie and her expertise on the matter regarding phones and email. However, he did know that it would be easy enough for someone like Tennyson to track them by what they purchased using their credit card, and where the transaction had taken place. If Tennyson had his fingers in the credit card companies’ databases, it would be simple enough to find them.

By taking cash out here in London, it would alert Tennyson that they were on the move — that they were aware of how easy it would be to locate them — but it was still a risk worth taking. They needed cash, and there was really no other way to acquire it without raising a red flag. Besides, any bank they could use wasn’t open at this hour.

Ben did not want to reach out to Mr. E again, either. He had gotten the sense that the man hoped for Ben to execute his portion of the mission in silence and isolation, without input or argument from the rest of the team, and without any further communication from Mr. E himself. Whatever the man had going on — whatever coping mechanisms the man had regarding the death of his wife — Ben would leave him to it in peace.

They had reached the airport about an hour after leaving the tavern, and Ben was pleased to discover that travel this time of the week and this time of day was relatively light. A half-hour after arriving, they had tickets booked for a flight leaving for Berne in twenty minutes.

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