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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

One row behind Winnen, a silver Iveco van accelerated for the car park exit, and Winnen turned and ran to it. De Payns looked at the vehicle and locked gazes with the driver—the former campus radical, now known as Murad, the terrorist he had first laid eyes on months earlier, sailing to Palermo.

Winnen ran towards the van, but rather than slow for his lover, Murad hit the gas and kept driving.

‘Stop,’ yelled de Payns, as Winnen almost comically ran after Murad and the van. She slowed, confused, and suddenly turned to face her pursuers. ‘No!’ said Shrek, but Heidi Winnen started shooting and Templar opened up with his rifle, killing the Dutchwoman before she hit the concrete.

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De Payns heaved for breath, standing over Winnen’s bloodied body. ‘We got her.’

‘But Murad’s on the run,’ Shrek pointed out.

Templar hadn’t given up—eleven cars away, he crouched over a parked motorbike, his fingers working under the petrol tank. Shrek and de Payns ran to him, but as Templar got the engine turning over he fell to the ground, clutching his leg.

‘Shit,’ he said, gasping in pain.

De Payns kneeled beside his friend and saw the bleeding bullet wound in the middle of his right thigh. He tore the trouser fabric apart and saw a bloody hole in his muscle, but it was weeping not spurting.

‘It’s just a leg wound, not an artery,’ yelled Templar. ‘Don’t worry about me—get that bastard.’

Shrek leaped onto the bike, an 1100 Yamaha, and handed a helmet back to de Payns.

‘Over there,’ de Payns said, pointing, and Shrek opened the clutch and surged to another motorbike. De Payns dismounted, grabbed the helmet and gave it to Shrek, who put it on and revved the bike.

‘One second,’ said de Payns, not getting back on the bike. A police support van had pulled into the car park and the cops were deploying in hazmat suits and breathing masks. De Payns crept into their van and unclipped two sets of plastic IDs attached to the officers’ jackets, hanging from hooks in the van.