White Cargo by Stuart Woods

Author:Stuart Woods [Woods, Stuart]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Signet
Published: 2001-12-04T06:00:00+00:00

The man was smaller than Cat, and his pin-striped suit was closely cut, with double vents, a full skirt, and pinched at the waist. Cat had been buying clothes in London long enough to know a Savile Row suit when he saw one. He was about to follow the man into the rest room, when another, larger man stepped in front of him and said something in Spanish.

Cat shrugged.

“I just want the men’s room,” he said.

“One moment, please,” the man said in heavily accented English.

Cat waited a couple of minutes, then the ponytailed man came out and walked past him back to his table, without so much as a glance at Cat.

The larger man indicated that Cat could now enter the men’s room. He did so, etching into his mind the memory of the ponytailed man. He was small, five-seven or so, well-built, athletic-looking, fair skin, light brown hair, an intelligent face, with a wide, vaguely cruel mouth. Cat had never seen him before, but he would never forget him, he was sure of that.

Back at the table. Cat lingered over coffee and dessert, trying vainly to pick up snatches of conversation from the larger table. At one point the two women went to the ladies’ room and the bodyguard, who had been hovering nearby, followed them there and back.

Cat and Meg finished their dinner and left the restaurant.

As they came out of the building. Cat saw the stretch Cadillac limousine waiting at the curb, and a few yards away. Bill’s taxi.

“Bill,” Cat said, as they got into the cab, “drive around the block and park where we can see the building entrance.”

Bill did as he was told.

“What are you going to do?” Meg asked.

“I’m not really sure,” Cat answered.

“I just want to see where they go. As he spoke two other, shorter, limousines drove up and parked at the building’s entrance. A few minutes later the party of twelve came down from the restaurant and spent a moment saying goodbyes out front. Two men got out of either side of the stretch limousine and waited as the ponytailed man got into the back seat. The others entered the smaller cars, and all three drove away in tandem.

“Bill, follow them at a discreet distance. If they split up, follow the big car.”

“Mister, you been seeing too many movies,” Bill said, but he followed his instructions.

After a few blocks, the big car turned left, while the other two continued. Bill obediently turned after it. It soon became obvious that they were headed toward the airport.

The short road to the Aeroservice hangar turned off the main airport road and was darker.

“Turn off your lights and stop here,” Cat said as they came to the turnoff.

They could see the limousine as it continued toward the hangar. The big Gulfstream was sitting on the apron outside the hangar with its engines running. They could hear the noise over the two hundred yards of distance between them and the airplane. As they watched the two

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