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transactions have

" he replied

ham had left two messag

you, sir. I have a potential participant.

nterest will be logged and we

it was so important that Gareg did not ring it.

r you. Can you leave in t

forty-eight minutes, if y

SA and Canada. Are yo

never let t

ke it from there. I have to go on a trip to Europe too, but I'll give you the details of your c

antly. He handed it back to Gareg. They both walked into the garden via the French doors, stood som

and was a veteran of many campaigns both at home and abroad. He was a short, squat and broad man at only 5' 4", but one of the last people anyone would ever want to meet in the world was mil

years he had been

ing, when he hadn't had the self-discipline that he had now and he had run riot in the town's bars, p

was a lif

they had only started working together again in civilian life a year b

een fit and healthy, diagnosed with cancer of t

. His one regret was that she had not lived long enough to help him spend the vast sums of money that he was earning now. Not that she ha

impossible and he knew that he would never l

days meant doing his job well and caring for his boss: in oth

nd him unattractive and he did have money, but most of the ones who came after him were too old for his t

worst of all, he knew that there was nothing in this life on Eart

Heathrow where he would stay over

, underwear and what he stood up in. He knew that he could buy anything else he ne

nt guesthouse', because he had never been to Birmingham, Alabam

u get me a taxi to take me to Dr. A. W. Crow's surge

d you like assistance

stem, as I have been ill for many years. If you will phone a taxi r

you too

ee people waiting and hung onto the doorknob as he walked in. He gasped deeply,

eezed. "Diabetic shock, is he in? Dr. Crow?

at him in horror, raced around to put a seat under him and phoned through. Dr. Crow came out immediately and helped Bob int

u have called the agency, DC, twice

ow Junior quite a fe

irst time that I have ever dealt with

to the participant. If you will give me the contac

searched for a patient record, had it print

all I hav

if he wants to co-operate, you will be notified. Thank you v

ps, I'd better have some insuli

at would

his hand. He looked up and down the street, which was fairl

, he called the bartender over again and showed him th

UK to see my long-lost brother, but I don't k

etter off getting a taxi. It

which took him to a middle-class suburb. He had the taxi sto

his hair down, walked up to

t-looking, pretty wom

is the residence of

ants t

se, M

s who want

sociated with where your husband works. There is no problem. In fact, quite the contrary. We think that

'm expecting him soon. He u

ou give me his cell phone number, so I could speak to him, or c

phone out of her p

e front door needs to spea

d the pho

ulars… Could we meet up soon, very soon? It would be in your financial interest. Please ring me right back on my cell phone,

. Carter. She held it to her

, I have no need to bother you any long

mile long, but he knew that if he walked east, he would get back into

was, since only Gareg and one other

to leave town tomorrow morning. I take it that you are heading home right now… Yes, good. Could you pick me up? I am six or seven hundred yards east of

e deserted street coming from the city centre.

. Could we go somewhere for a private chat? It needn't take long. I sugges

k into town. Ron Carter activated the hands-fre

home within the hour. Yes, sorry about the meal, but you know the situation an

Barber, what's

ng comfortably, but I will say this, there is nothing for you to worry about.

Trim Tab Rye Brown Ale on the table and two full glasses five minutes late

e replied, "

t will come as a surprise to you. I understand that you s

o be obtuse, but what is this all ab

have a way for you to leave your wife a w

ou know a

r evening. In a bar, perhaps even this one, I thought the bar tender recogn

roblem. This is as g

ce, let me top you up. Would you

y n

r was there in an instant. He o

remember the

ur pitch, Jim, and we'

ple that you were interested in making some big money quickly, because you and y

told yo

rinks with and poured your heart ou

at he had no more than three months left to live, but he hadn't told his wife and he couldn't remember much about the evening in question.

part of the company's routine procedure, so that there would b

ot reveal to you how I know

all. Just id

what you said t

rt

still int

es

Che

security guards did not allow the taxi to enter the gates, so Gareg paid the driver off and showed the guard

him on the verandah out

in and how nice to see you, " he

meaning it. "Whoever said that it was bad to combine busin

hands with and hug Gareg, then he snapped his fingers and a butler wheeled over

ike to fresh

dip in that marvellous pool of yo

to a handset and a golf cart appeared to

have plenty of trunks for you to use in the chan

here was a certain Monique in t

s, she is no longer with us. We had to let her g

s grime off me and cool down for a while. Anot

cated and i

s in the Olympic-sized swimming p

my friend, I do env

but you choose your own way, as I hav

would be mo

can get chef to rustle just

. I'll eat what

would, but I apprec

to the hand

you are and your penchant for seafood, so chef was al

ve seafood

e used to the lifestyle than Gareg, who was 'new money' since he had made most of his since leaving the army, al

Marseille from Sicily in the aftermath of the First World War. Their family still had land and farms on

f state. He was married and Gareg had met his wife once, but she spent most of her time in Sicily a

what is the p

out of a locked drawer under the table top. "Shall we run through them now an

g moved over to sit next to his friend who

can roll the details around in your head, while you roll Yvette aroun

decent plan a

ng-lost brothers, which was always the case. Gareg shook hands wit

hraoig on the porch of Gareg's farm where Bob had spent most of his time since Jenny ha

I met three potentials and one w

cision on that score, Bob. You have pu

liding across the blue folder tha

p and entered into the database. When

etty sure that we will have three more recrui

actually turn up, do you? And how ab

problem with them. I am as sure of them as I c

y, for one of

d according to the footage, there were only two w

through the head, but both bodies were intact. This means that w

Caucasian suicide bomber… Do

about forty-five years of age and of European or American, as you say, Cauca

tell us why, although I darn wish it could. Why would a

converted to Isl

d the most likely explanation at t

ing,

of a fanatical Caucasian convert to I

ms,

know who and ask them if they can email all the Imams here and abroad that have reported a wh

r, " volunteered

run with that. We have a middle-aged, white Caucasian man, who converted to Islam recently – or no

ow and it doesn't make it an

oto of the bomber taken seconds before he died for

and why did