“Probably the message as
well
“A location, yes;... “Probably the message as
well
“A location, yes; the message, maybe,” broke in Conklin, speaking quietly, rapidly“Not an
address, not a name
“By morning they will have—”
“By morning he’ll be on his way to Tierra del Fuego, if need be
“Christ, what have I done?” exclaimed the psychiatrist
“Nothing anybody else in your place wouldn’t have done,” replied Alex“You get a message at
two o’clock in the morning from someone you care about, someone in trouble, you call back as fast
as you canNow we have to reach him as fast as we canSo it’s not Carlos, but somebody with a
lot of firepower is still closing in, making breakthroughs we thought were
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“Use the phone in my car,” said Holland“I’ll put it on overrideThere’ll be no record, no log
“Let’s go!” As quickly as possible, Conklin limped across the lawn toward the Agency vehicle
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“David, it’s Alex
“Your timing’s pretty scary, friend, we’re on our way out the doorIf Jamie hadn’t had to hit the
potty we’d be in the car by now
“At this hour?”
“Didn’t Mo tell you? There was no answer at your place, so I called him
“Mo’s a little shook upWhat’s happening?”
“Is this phone secure? I wasn’t sure his was
“I’m packing Marie and the kids off south—way southShe’s screaming like hell, but I chartered
a Rockwell jet out of Logan Airport, everything
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four years agoThe computers spun and everyone cooperatedThey take off at six o’clock, before
it’s light—I want them out
“And you, David? What about you?”
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“Frankly, I thought I’d head to Washington and stay with youIf the Jackal’s coming for me
after all these years, I want to be in on what we’re doing about itI might even be able to helpNot today and not hereGo with Marie and the childrenGet out of the country
Stay with your family and Johnny StJacques on the island
“I can’t do that, Alex, and if you were me you couldn’t, eitherMy family’s not going to be
free—really
d&g free—until Carlos is out of our lives
“It’s not Carlos,” said Conklin, interrupting
“What? Yesterday you told me—”
“Forget what I told you, I was wrongThis is out of Hong Kong, out of Macao
“That doesn’t make sense, Alex! Hong Kong’s finished, Macao’s finishedThey’re dead and
forgotten and there’s no one alive with a reason to come after me
“There is somewhereA great taipan, ‘the greatest taipan in Hong Kong,’ according to the most
recent and most recently dead sourceThat whole house of Kuomintang cards collapsedThere’s no one left!”
“I repeat, there is somewhere
David Webb was briefly silent; then Jason Bourne spoke, his voice cold“Tell me
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you’ve learned, every detailSomething happened tonightWhat was it?”
“All right, every detail,” said ConklinThe retired intelligence officer described the controlled
surveillance engineered by the Central Intelligence AgencyHe explained how he and Morris
Panov spotted the old men who followed them, picking each up in sequence as they made their
separate ways to the Smithsonian, none showing himself in the light until the confrontation on a
deserted path on the Smithsonian grounds, where the messenger spoke of Macao and Hong Kong
and a great taipanFinally, Conklin described the shattering gunfire that silenced the two aged
Orientals“It’s out of Hong Kong,
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