White House (Kirk McGarvey 7) by Hagberg David

Author:Hagberg, David [Hagberg, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Thrillers, Espionage, McGarvey, Kirk (Fictitious character)
ISBN: 9781466812802
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2001-01-15T05:00:00+00:00

The President was shaken. lie sat down. "Do nou know who the woman is?"

"We don't ha\e her name, but she,c;laimed to be Croft's mistress. The\'d been meeting onee or twice a week at the Hay Adams over the jDast six months. The liotel staff tliink she was probablv a prostitute."

The President and Secor exchanged a ghince. "Did you know anything about this, Harold?" Lindsay asked.

"Tony's been under a lot of pressure lately, like we all ha\e been, but this is the first I heard anything like that."

"Terrible," Lindsay said, moved. He shook his head. "Do you have the woman in custody?"

"We don't even have her name yet," Pierone said. "But she promised that she would call back with more information. She told us that she had to take care of something first, for her own protection."

''Who w^ould want to kill him, and why?" the President asked.

Pierone girded himself for what he was going to have to sa\' next. He laid a leather-bound folder on the President's desk. Neither the President or Secor reached for it. "I don't know how to give this to vou, Mr. President, except straight. It's very likely that Lm going to be subpoenaed by Sam Blair to turn over w^hat we've come up with in the Joseph Lee investigation."

''What are you talking about?" Secor demanded. "What information?"

"It looks fairly certain that the bombing in Georgetown on Frida\ was aimed at Kirk McGarvey by someone who not only knew he was being proposed as the CIA's new deputy directory of Operations, but who wanted for some reason to stop him. At any cost. One of the terrorists was identified as a former employee of an operation in Hong Kong owned by Lee."

"A former employee?" Secor said.

Pierone nodded. "He was fired two years ago."

"What does this have to do with Tony Croft?"

"Saturday morning Tony held a prixate briefing here in the White House for Mr. Lee—"

"How do vou know that?" the President demanded.

"One of Croft's staffers told us. \\Y^ weren't gi\en the substance of that briefing, except that it was extensive and dealt with a current hot-button topic. Twenty-four hours later Lee returned to his home in Taiwan. He stayed there overnight, then disappeared. The CIA spotted him in Tokyo this morning, but lost him again. Nobody knows where he is now."

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