Shared aims, shared benefits, shared duties, shared information. Which might make this whole thing a co-production. Karel Libor was a thorn in both their sides, according to MI5. A Serbian outfit in the west of London, and an old-fashioned English gang in the east. Or, during the sixth second, the second possibility, which was right there in O’Day’s own words, at the conference after the aborted barbecue dinner. Maybe on this occasion he was willing to take help from anyone who would sell it. Maybe Charlie White had a red telephone on his desk, like in the Oval Office, for pride-swallowing calls between bosses.
Maybe the Romford Boys were in such a state they had put out a general alert, like a price on our heads, with descriptions, all across the network. The first of which I hashed through during the fifth second. Or an enterprise goes out of business, pretty damn quick.
And customers get service, not a locked door. So we were customers, no different than a junkie talking to one of their dealers, or a john hiring one of their hookers. Just possibly conceivably some kind of a weird student-exchange programme whereby FBI agents from America were moonlighting in London, maybe with London coppers doing the same thing in New York or LA or Chicago. Therefore the third second was spent understanding something was seriously wrong, a familiar chill stabbing my face and my neck and my chest, and then I was glancing at Casey Nice, which upped the stakes, because she was glancing back at me, and then I was mentally listing the factors we had to deal with, purely on autopilot in the back of my brain, walls, a door, a window, four guys outside, and then in the fourth second the who and the why hit me, which made the whole thing worse.īecause as far as the Serbians were concerned, we were customers, nothing more. At that point we were still equal parties to a negotiation, both sides on best behaviour, properly wary and sceptical, for sure, like buying a used car, but at least polite. Then in the second second I dismissed that theory, because it was a lock too far. Exaggerated lock-and-key precautions at the warehouse end of the operation might be seen as authentic, by some buyers, and maybe exciting, somehow suggestive of other locks and keys, perhaps to whole storerooms stacked with boxes, each one full of weapons still dewy with oil. Tags: Spies, Mystery & Detective, Fiction, Suspense, Thriller, Politics, Assassinations, EspionageįOR A SECOND I took the snick of the lock to be normal, somehow consistent with the whole cloak-and-dagger drama-queen bullshit we had seen since the beginning, starting with the gnome behind the pawn-shop counter.
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