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?Not with what I know, MrMy family and I will be well taken care of?a new name,
perhaps a nice farm in the Dakotas or WyomingYou see, I knew this moment had to come
?What?s come now, you bastard, is that a friend of mine inside there is shot up! You did it!?
?A truce, then?? said Mario
?What the hell do you mean by that??
?I have a very fast car a half mile away The killer from Larchmont, New York, pulled a square
instrument from his belt?It can be here in less than a minuteI?m sure the driver knows the nearest
hospital
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?Do it!?
?It?s done, Jason Bourne,? said Mario, pressing a button
Morris Panov had been rolled into the operating room; Louis DeFazio was still on a gurney, as it
was determined that his wound was superficialAnd through back-channel negotiations between
Washington and Quai d?Orsay, the criminal known only as Mario was securely in the custody of
the American embassy in Paris
A white-frocked doctor came out into the hospital?s waiting room; both Conklin and Bourne got
to their feet, frightened?I will not pretend to be a bearer of glad tidings,? said the physician in
French, ?for it would be quite wrongBoth lungs of your friend were cartier swiss watches punctured, as well as the wall
of his heartHe has at best a forty-sixty chance of survival?against him, I?m afraidStill, he is a
strong-willed man who wants to liveAt times that means more than all the medical negatives
What else can I tell you??
?Thank you, Doctor
?I have to use a telephone,? said Alex to the surgeon?I should go to our embassy, but I haven?t
the timeDo I have any guarantee that I won?t be tapped, overheard??
?I imagine you have every guarantee,? replied the physician?We wouldn?t know how to do it
Use my office, please
?Peter??
?Alex!? cried Holland from Langley, Virginia?Everything go all right? Did Marie get off??
?To answer your first question, no, everything did not go all right; and as far as Marie goes, you
can expect a panicked phone call from her the minute she reaches MarseillesThat pilot won?t
touch his radio
?What??
?Tell her we?re okay, that David?s not hurt??
?What are you talking about?? broke in the director of Central Intelligence
?We were ambushed while waiting for the plane from PoitiersI?m afraid Mo Panov?s in bad
shape, so bad I don?t want to think about it right nowWe?re in a hospital and the doctor?s not
encouraging
?Oh, God, Alex, I?m sorry
?In his own way, Mo?s white chanel j12 watch a fighterI?ll still bet on himIncidentally, don?t tell MarieIs there anything I can do??
?Yes, there is, PeterYou can tell me why Medusa?s here in Paris
?In Paris? It?s not according to everything I know and I know a hell of a lot
?Our identification?s positiveThe two guns that hit us an hour ago were sent over by Medusa
We?ve even got a confession of sorts
?I don?t understand!? protested Holland?Paris never entered into our thinkingThere?s no
linkage in the scenario
?Sure, there is,? contradicted the former station chief?You said it yourselfYou called it a selffulfilling
prophecy, remember? The ultimate logic that Bourne conceived as a theoryMedusa
joining up with the Jackal, the target Jason Bourne
?That?s the point, AlexIt was only a theory, hypothetically convincing, but still just a theory,
the basis for a sound strategyBut it never happened
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?Not from this endAs far as we?re concerned, Medusa?s now in Moscow
?Moscow?? Conklin nearly dropped the phone on the doctor?s deskWe?ve concentrated on Ogilvie?s law firm in New York, tapping everything that
could be tappedSomehow?and we don?t know how?Ogilvie was tipped off and got out of the
countryHe took an gucci g charm ladies stainless steel watch Aeroflot to Moscow, and the rest of his family headed to Marrakesh?? Alex could barely be heard; frowning, his memory peeled away the years?From
Saigon? A legal officer from Saigon??
?That?s rightWe?re convinced he runs Medusa
?And you withheld that information from me??
?Only the name of the firmI told you we had our priorities and you had yoursFor us, Medusa
came first
?You simple swab jockey!? exploded Conklin?I know Ogilvie?more precisely, I knew him
Let me tell you what they called him in Saigon: Ice-Cold Ogilvie, the smoothest-talking legal
scumball in VietnamWith a few subpoenas and some research, I could have told you where a few
of his courtroom skeletons were buried?you blew it! You could have pulled him in for fixing the
army courts in a couple of killings?there are no statutes, civilian or military, on those crimes
Jesus, why didn?t you tell me??
?In all honesty, Alex, you never askedYou simply assumed?rightly so?that I wouldn?t tell
you
?All right, all right, it?s done?to hell with itBy tomorrow or the next day you?ll have our two
Medusans, so go to work on themThey both want to save their asses?the capo?s a slime, but his
sharpshooter keeps praying for his family and it?s not black leather chanel purse organizational
?What are you going to do?? pressed Holland
?We?re on our way to Moscow
?After Ogilvie??
?No, the JackalBut if I see Bryce, I?ll give him your regards
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Buckingham Pritchard sat next to his uniformed uncle, Cyril Sylvester Pritchard, deputy director of
immigration, in the office of Sir Henry Sykes at Government House in MontserratBeside them, on
the deputy?s right, was their attorney, the finest native solicitor Sykes could persuade to advise the
Pritchards in the event that the Crown brought a case against them as accessories to terrorismSir
Henry sat behind the desk and glanced in partial shock at the lawyer, one Jonathan Lemuel, who
raised his head and eyes to the ceiling, not to have the benefit of the tropic fan that stirred the
humid air but to show disbeliefLemuel was a Cambridge-educated attorney, once a ?scholarship
boy? from the colonies, who years ago had made his money in London and returned in the autumn
of his life to his native ?Serrat to enjoy the fruits of his laborsActually, Sir Henry had persuaded
his retired black friend to give assistance to a couple of idiots who might have involved themselves
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