grab another and raise the ante to four mu.’
‘Fairly routine for them.’
‘Yes, very little imagination. The hook is that they lifted the wrong man. But it’s just a wrinkle, nothing that would affect the overall operation.’
‘Media? Police?’
‘No, so far it’s clean. A few executives and the driver of the car Lavander was taken from.’
‘Excellent. State department isn’t involved, or CIA?’
‘No, it’s under wraps. We have the contract and I’ve handled the funds in the usual manner. Three hundred thousand less my commission.’
‘Excellent, I’ll take it from here.. As usual, you did an excellent job, Mr Duffield. At the beep tone, please feed Master all names and contacts and any other information we’ll need.’
‘Thanks very much.’
‘Thank you for moving so quickly. Good day, sir.’
‘So long.’
‘This is Master Control.’
‘Clearance for selection.’
‘One moment, please.’ A few seconds later a recorded voice came on the line. ‘Clearance. Your ID?’
‘Quill. Z-l.’
‘Programming Z- 1. Voice check.’
‘Four score and seven years ago..
‘Voice check cleared. Your number?’
‘730-037-370.’
‘Your program?’
‘Selection.’
‘Programming selection.’ There was another pause and then:
‘This is Selection.’
‘Antiterrorism.’
‘Programmed.’
‘Assassination,’
‘Programmed.’
‘Kidnapping.’
‘Programmed.’
‘Language, Spanish.’
‘Programmed.’
‘Venezuela.’
‘Programmed.’
‘Route and intersect.’
‘Routing... intersection.., we have twelve candidates.’
‘File and reselect.’
‘Filed and reprogrammed.’
‘Availability.’
‘Programmed.’
‘Route and intersect.’
‘Routing ... intersection ... we have nine candidates.’ ‘File and reselect.’
‘Filed and reprogrammed.’
‘Team operation.’
‘Programmed.’
‘Previous team.’
‘Programmed.’
‘Assassination, non-political.’
‘Programmed.’
