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Chapters (76)
  1. COVER PAGE
  2. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  3. DEDICATION
  4. AMIN
  5. PARIS
  6. … TWO YEARS LATER
  7. CHAPTER ONE
  8. CHAPTER TWO
  9. CHAPTER THREE
  10. CHAPTER FOUR
  11. CHAPTER FIVE
  12. CHAPTER SIX
  13. CHAPTER SEVEN
  14. CHAPTER EIGHT
  15. CHAPTER NINE
  16. CHAPTER TEN
  17. CHAPTER ELEVEN
  18. CHAPTER TWELVE
  19. CHAPTER THIRTEEN
  20. CHAPTER FOURTEEN
  21. CHAPTER FIFTEEN
  22. CHAPTER SIXTEEN
  23. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
  24. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
  25. CHAPTER NINETEEN
  26. CHAPTER TWENTY
  27. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
  28. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
  29. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
  30. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
  31. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
  32. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
  33. CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
  34. CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
  35. CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
  36. CHAPTER THIRTY
  37. CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
  38. CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
  39. CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
  40. CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
  41. CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
  42. CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
  43. CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
  44. CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
  45. CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
  46. CHAPTER FORTY
  47. CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
  48. CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
  49. CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
  50. CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR
  51. CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
  52. CHAPTER FORTY-SIX
  53. CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN
  54. CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT
  55. CHAPTER FORTY-NINE
  56. CHAPTER FIFTY
  57. CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE
  58. CHAPTER FIFTY-TWO
  59. CHAPTER FIFTY-THREE
  60. CHAPTER FIFTY-FOUR
  61. CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE
  62. CHAPTER FIFTY-SIX
  63. CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN
  64. CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT
  65. CHAPTER FIFTY-NINE
  66. CHAPTER SIXTY
  67. CHAPTER SIXTY-ONE
  68. CHAPTER SIXTY-TWO
  69. CHAPTER SIXTY-THREE
  70. CHAPTER SIXTY-FOUR
  71. CHAPTER SIXTY-FIVE
  72. CHAPTER SIXTY-SIX
  73. CHAPTER SIXTY-SEVEN
  74. CHAPTER SIXTY-EIGHT
  75. CHAPTER SIXTY-NINE
  76. EPILOGUE

‘He’s been with me,’ said Briffaut.

‘With you?’ asked de Payns.

‘We’ve had our eye on Manerie and …’

‘And me?’ asked de Payns.

‘Manerie told me the DGS was investigating us both,’ said Shrek. ‘He basically blackmailed me to leak to him from Noisy, so I went to the boss. We’ve been trying to backtrack Palermo, work out what Manerie was scared of us finding.’

‘I know why it went bad down there,’ said de Payns. ‘Manerie was promised the money for the passports. When I decided to leap on the Cagliari trip, it meant I unexpectedly got a look at Murad on the ferry and he decided to pull the plug.’

‘So that really was Murad?’

‘According to Manerie, yes.’

Briffaut got on his phone again and told the recipient of the call to make up a pack and send it to all intelligence agencies, police stations and embassies. ‘It’s a crappy picture,’ he said, ‘but it’s all we have.’

CHAPTER SIXTY-ONE

CHAPTER

SIXTY-ONE

The Audi SUV disappeared into the parking building at Charles de Gaulle airport in northern Paris and Templar told the van driver, Jean-Michel Legrand, to pull over.

‘We can’t spook him now,’ he said, watching Manerie’s vehicle move out of sight. It was just past 2 a.m. and the airport precinct was becoming busy. Templar had one job—to find Aguilar’s family and return them safely. It would have a complication, because the mother and two children thought it was an exercise and Aguilar wanted them to continue to believe that, if possible. If Romy ever got wind of the fact her children really had been abducted, she would not stay married to the Company.

Behind him in the working area of the van, he could hear Brent Clercq making another call to the DT section back at the Cat. He asked yet again if there was a terminating tower for the call they’d logged from Manerie’s phone. The DT was talking to a cooperative phone company but it was taking time.