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Chapters (25)
  1. SECTION ONE: ALTA VISTA
  2. I
  3. II
  4. III
  5. SECTION TWO: BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
  6. IV
  7. V
  8. VI
  9. VII
  10. SECTION THREE: MUNICH
  11. VIII
  12. IX
  13. SECTION FOUR: PRAGUE
  14. X
  15. XI
  16. SECTION FIVE: BRENNER
  17. XII
  18. XIII
  19. SECTION SIX: OBERAMMERGAU
  20. XIV
  21. XV
  22. ARRT CODA
  23. Author’s Note
  24. Acknowledgments
  25. About the Author

A minute later the gray Taurus pulled to a stop in front of her, and Nemo leaned out the window.

“Miss me?” he said.

“You might have told me you were going,” she said.

“Hadn’t really thought it through before you fell asleep. Hop in.”

“Where are we going?”

“Flight to London leaves from Atlanta at seven tomorrow morning,” said Nemo. “I’ve got coffee, fried chicken, and two first-class tickets bought with cash from a very happy travel agent in Wilkesboro.”

“I didn’t know there was still such a thing as travel agents.”

“In Wilkesboro there is,” said Nemo. “I also found a nice lake to dump everything we’re not taking on the plane.”

“Even Jasper’s Enigma machine?” said Patton wistfully.

“Sorry,” said Nemo. “No loose ends.” Patton hated to think of the result of all Jasper’s work rusting away on the bottom of some muddy lake, but she understood.

“I’ll bet a mysterious assassin like you who lives his whole life in the shadows has no idea where to get good fried chicken,” said Patton, putting the safety back on her pistol and climbing into the car. But she was wrong. It was the best fried chicken she’d ever had.

SECTION TWO: BUCKINGHAMSHIRE

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SECTION TWO:
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE

IV

IV

Ingrid Weiss sat in front of a wall of computer screens in the basement of her home on Döbereinerstrasse. Some monitored websites, others roamed the Internet looking for specific words and phrases, others focused on the task at hand—fixing the debacle of Alta Vista. It should have been a simple operation—a hired hand takes care of the risky bit, a pair of Columbia House “security personnel” retrieve the document, and no one is the wiser. Now she and her associates had to deal with the brutal murder of a member of law enforcement, a pair of runaways, and no sign of the document. If this Patton Harcourt woman had the paper, if she knew what it was, and if Nemo had teamed up with her as Karl suspected, the two might go to Bletchley Park to try to decode the message and they could be intercepted there. But that was a lot of ifs. If Harcourt didn’t have the paper, the entire operation might have been a waste of time and money. The important thing now was to get Karl and Erich safely out of the US. This would all be so much easier if they had more money. They could hire more personnel and dispatch them to the UK to wait for the runaways, they could purchase Jasper Fleming’s house and tear it apart brick by brick looking for that damn paper. But therein lay the catch-22 of Projekt Alchemie—once they completed the project they would have almost endless money, but the project might fail due to lack of funds at the moment.