“You’re not okay, you’re a fruitcake! Get... “You’re not okay, you’re a fruitcake! Get out!”
“Sorry, Saint Alex, this is exactly where I want to beI’m going after the Jackal
“Well, maybe I can move you off that place you’re clinging toI spoke to Marie a couple of
hours agoGuess what, you aging Neanderthal? She’s flying to Paris
“She can’t!”
“That’s what I said, but she wasn’t in a listening modeShe said she knew all the places you and
she used when you were running from us thirteen years agoThat you’d use them againBut she mustn’t!”
“Tell her, not me
“What’s the Tranquility number? I’ve been afraid to call her—to be honest, I’ve tried like hell to
put her and the kids out of my mind
“That’s the most reasonable statement you’ve made Conklin recited the 809 area
code number, and the instant he had done so, Bourne slammed down the
quilted white bag phone
Frantically, Jason went through the agonizing process of relaying destination and credit card
numbers, accompanied by the beeps and stutters of an overseas call to the Caribbean, and, finally,
after subduing some idiot at the front desk of Tranquility Inn, got through to his brother-in-law
“Get Marie for me!” he ordered
“Where to?”
“She wouldn’t tell meShe chartered a plane out of Blackburne, but she wouldn’t tell me what
international island she was going toThere’s only Antigua or Martinique around here, but she
could have flown to Sint Maarten or Puerto RicoShe’s on her way to Paris
“Couldn’t you have stopped her?”
“Christ, I tried, DavidGoddamn it, I tried!”
“Did you ever think about locking her up?”
“Marie?”
“I see what you meanShe can’t get here until tomorrow morning at the earliest
“Have
louis vuitton denim you heard the news?” cried St“General Teagarten was killed and they say it
was Jason—”
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“Oh, shut up,” said Bourne, replacing the phone and leaving the booth, walking down the street
to collect what thoughts he could generate
Peter Holland, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, rose to his feet behind his desk and
roared at the crippled man seated in front of him“Do nothing? Have you lost your fucking
senses?”
“Did you lose yours when you issued that statement about a joint British-American operation in
Hong Kong?”
“It was the goddamned truth!”
“There are truths, and then again there are other truths, such as denying the truth when it doesn’t
serve the service
“Shit! Fairy politicians!”
“I’d hardly say that, Genghis KhanI’ve heard of such men
costume jewelry chanel going to the wall, accepting
execution rather than betraying the current truth they had to live byYou’re off base, Peter
Exasperated, Holland sank back into his chair“Maybe I really don’t belong here
“Maybe you don’t, but give yourself a little more timeMaybe you’ll become as dirty as the rest
of us; it could happen, you know
The director leaned back, arching his head over the chair; he spoke in a broken cadence“I was
dirtier than any of you in the field, AlexI still wake up at night seeing the faces of young men
staring at me as I ripped a knife up their chests, taking their lives away, somehow knowing that
they had no idea why they were there
“It was either you or themThey would have put a bullet in your head if they could have The DCI shot forward, his eyes locked with Conklin’s“But that’s not
gucci hobo what
we’re talking about, is it?”
“You might say it’s a variation on the theme
“It’s a musician’s term
“Then get to the main symphonic line, AlexHe told me that he thinks he’s found a cave—his word, not
mine—where he’s convinced he can track the JackalHe didn’t say where it is, and God knows
when he’ll call me again
“I sent our man at the embassy over to the Pont-Royal, asking for SimonWhat they told you is
trueSimon checked in, went out, and never came backWhere is he?”
“Staying out of sightBernardine had an idea, but it blew up in his faceHe thought he could
quietly close in on Bourne by circulating the license number of the rental car, but it wasn’t picked
up at the garage and we both agree it won’t beHe doesn’t trust anybody now, not even me, and
considering his history, he has every right not
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