“I don’t care about that,” said Alex, squinting... “I don’t care about that,” said Alex, squinting at nothing the others could see“They also reach
Carlos quickly, you made that clear
Conklin widened his eyes and fixed them on Lavier“I want you to send the most urgent
message you’ve ever relayed to the JackalYou must talk to him directlyIt’s an emergency that
you can entrust to no one but Carlos himself
“About what?” erupted Krupkin“What could be so urgent that the Jackal will comply? Like our
MrBourne, he is obsessed with traps, and under the circumstances, any direct communication
smells of one!”
Alex shook his head and limped to a side window, squinting again, deep in thought, his intense
eyes reflecting his concentrationThen gradually, slowly, his eyes openedHe gazed at the street
below“My God, it could work,” he whispered to himself
“What could work?” asked Bourne
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“What?”
“Just do as I say! Quickly!”
“Aleksei ?”
“Now!”
The force and urgency of Conklin’s command had its effectThe Russian walked rapidly to the
mother-of-pearl telephone and dialed, his questioning eyes on Alex, who kept staring down at the
streetLavier looked at Jason; he shook his head in bewilderment as Krupkin spoke into the phone,
his Russian a short series of clipped phrases
“It’s done,” said the KGB officer, hanging up“And now I think you should give me an
extremely convincing reason for doing it
“Moscow,” replied Conklin, still looking out the window
“Alex, for Christ’s sake—”
“What are you saying?” roared Krupkin
“We’ve got to get Carlos out of Paris,” said Conklin, turning“Where better than Moscow?”
Before the
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“He has no reason not to
“Then two words should do it‘Moscow, emergency,’ that’s the basic message you’re sending
himPut it any way you like, but add that the crisis is of such a nature that you must speak only
with himI know men who have spoken with him, who in drunken moments have tried
to describe him, but to me he is a complete stranger
“All the stronger for it,” broke in Conklin, turning to Bourne and Krupkin“In this city he’s got
all the cards, all of themHe’s got firepower, an untraceable network of gunslingers and couriers,
and for every crevice he can crawl into and burst out from, there are dozens more available to him
Paris is his territory, his protection—we could run blindly all over the city for days, weeks,
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months, getting nowhere until the moment comes when he’s got you and Marie in his gun sights
you can also add Mo and me to that scenarioLondon, Amsterdam, Brussels, Rome—they’d all be
better for us than Paris, but the best is MoscowOddly enough, it’s the one place in the world that
has a hypnotic hold on him—and also the one that’s the least hospitable
“Aleksei, Aleksei,” cried Dimitri Krupkin“I really think you should reconsider alcohol, for it’s
obvious you’ve lost your senses! Say Domie actually reaches Carlos and tells him what you say
Do you really believe that on the basis of an ‘emergency’ in Moscow he’ll up and take the next
plane there? Insanity!”
“You can bet your last black-market ruble I do,” replied Conklin“That message is only to
convince him to get in touch with herOnce he does, she explodes the bombShe’s just heard
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extraordinary piece of information that she knew should only be conveyed to him, not sent through
the message tunnels
“And what in God’s name might that be?” asked Lavier, extracting another cigarette and
instantly lighting it
“The KGB in Moscow is closing in on the Jackal’s man in Dzerzhinsky SquareThey’ve
narrowed it down to, say, ten or fifteen officers in the highest ranksOnce they find him, Carlos is
neutralized in the Komitet—worse, he’s about to lose an informer who knows far too much about
him to the Lubyanka interrogators
“But how would she know that?” said Jason
“Who would tell her?” added Krupkin
“It’s the truth, isn’t it?”
“So are your very secret substations in Beijing, Kabul and—forgive my impertinence—
Canada’s Prince Edward Island, but you don’t advertise them,” said Krupkin
“I didn’t know about Prince Edward,” admitted
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