“I’m almost sure of it. I’d stake my life on it. They knew the house, the whole style was very similar. We’ve got prints and DNA all over the place. We should have them all ID’d very quickly. Three of them got away, but this time we won’t lose them, and one of them is badly injured. My agent is a great shot. He took a hell of a chance shooting the foreman, but Ms. Morgan is unhurt. They’d probably have killed her if they took her, just as they did last time with her husband and son. They’re not the smoothest group.” Even not speaking the same language, one could tell that they were rough and uneducated.

“Thank you for letting me know. Is the one you’ve got in custody liable to talk?” Mike asked Guy.

“I think that’s a certainty,” Guy said with a small smile at his end of the conversation. “We have a translator with him now. I hate to do it, but we’ll offer him a lighter sentence if he talks.”

Mike’s hand was shaking when he hung up the phone. If they had killed her, or taken her, he would have been devastated, and he was still worried about her, with three of the kidnappers on the loose. He called Robert Richmond next. He had already been filled in by Guy Thomas. He wanted to call Theo, but Guy said she was on her way home and somewhat in shock.

“I don’t know if they’ll show up here, but I’ve reached out to all our informants,” Robert said. “They may be a little sloppier now with their leader gone and one of them injured. I’ll let you know if I hear anything. And the DGSE has her well protected. She needs to lie low for a while till we see what they do next. It must have been a hell of a scare for her.”

“I’m sure it was,” Mike said. “Guy said she was covered in their blood and brain matter when he got to her. They had one of their best marksmen with her. They don’t want a replay of last time,” and neither did he. “I’m going over in about a week, but I’ve got my hands full here right now, waiting for a big deal to play out. I can’t leave at the moment.”

“Good luck with that. I’ll keep you posted,” Robert said succinctly.

“Thanks, Robert,” Mike said and hung up.