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government officials and, unless he was grossly mistaken, the assassination of the supreme commander of NATOCompounding this chain of horrors was New York?s opinion that in order to Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM 376 save a number of his companies from confiscation, Ogilvie might have ordered additional killings in Europe, primarily of those few powerful executives in various firms who understood the complex international linkages that led back to a great law firm and the unspoken code name MedusaShould those contracted murders take place while Ogilvie was in Moscow, questions might arise that Moscow could not tolerateTherefore, get him in and out of the Soviet Union as fast as possible, a recommendation more easily made than accomplished Suddenly, Rodchenko reflected, into this danse macabre had come the paranoid monseigneur from ParisIt was imperative they meet immediately! Carlos had fairly screamed his demand over the arranged public telephone communication they employed, but every precaution had to be taken The Jackal, as always, demanded a public place, with crowds, and numerous available exits, chanel white purses where he could circle like a hawk, never showing himself until his professional eyes were satisfiedTwo calls later, from two different locations, the rendezvous was setBasil?s Cathedral in Red Square during the height of the early evening?s summer tourist onslaughtIn a darkened corner to the right of the altar where there were outside exits through the curtained walkways to the sacristyDone! Then, during that third telephone call, like a crack of thunder over the Black Sea, Grigorie Rodchenko was struck by an idea so dramatically bold, yet so patently obvious and simple, that he had momentarily lost his breathIt was the solution that would totally distance the Soviet government from any involvement or complicity with either the Jackal or Medusa?s Ogilvie should such distance be necessary in the eyes of the civilized world Quite simply, unknown to each other, bring the Jackal and Ogilvie together, if only for an instant, just long enough to get photographic evidence of their being seen within the same frameIt was all that was needed He had gone to Diplomatic Relations yesterday afternoon, having requested a short gucci twirl watch routine meeting with OgilvieDuring the extremely innocuous and very friendly conference, Rodchenko had waited for his opening?an opening he had engineered with precision, having done his research ?You spend summers on Cape Cod, da?? the general had said ?For me it?s weekends mainlyMy wife and the children are there for the season ?When I was posted in Washington, I had two great American friends on Cape CodI spent several lovely, as you say, weekends with themPerhaps you know my friends, the Frosts? Hardleigh and Carol Frost?? ?Of course I doLike myself, he?s an attorney, specializes in maritime lawThey live down the shore road in Dennis ?A very attractive lady, the Frost womanDid you ever attempt to recruit her husband for your firm?? ?NoFrost, Goldfarb and O?Shaunessy; they cover the waterfront, as it were, in Massachusetts ?I feel I almost know you, MrOgilvie, if only through mutual friends ?I?m sorry we never met at the Cape ?Well, perhaps, I can take advantage of our near meeting?through mutual friends?and ask of you a favor, far less than the convenience I understand my government willingly affords you ?I?ve been given balenciaga giant bag to understand the convenience is mutual,? said Ogilvie ?Ahh, I know nothing of such diplomatic matters, but it is conceivable that I could intervene on your behalf if you would cooperate with us?with my small, although not insignificant, department Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM 377 ?What is it?? ?There is a priest, a socially oriented militant priest, who claims to be a Marxist agitator well known to the courts of New York CityHe arrived only hours ago and demands a clandestine meeting only hours from nowThere is simply no time to verify his claims, but as he insists he has a history of legal ?persecutions? in the courts of New York, as well as many photographs in the newspapers, you might recognize him ?I probably could, if he is who he says he is ?Da! And one way or another, we will certainly let it be known how you cooperated with us It had been arrangedOgilvie would be in the crowds at StBasil?s Cathedral close to the meeting groundWhen he saw Rodchenko approach a priest in the far corner to the right of the altar, he was to ?come across? the KGB general casually, as if surprisedTheir greeting would chanel earrings be brief to the point of discourtesy, so rapid and blurred as to be meaningless, the sort of encounter civilized but hostile acquaintances cannot avoid when they run into one another in a public place Close proximity was also required, as the light was so dim and so cluttered with shadows that the attorney might not get a good look at the priest Ogilvie had performed with the expertise of an accomplished trial lawyer verbally trapping a prosecution?s witness with an objectionable inquiry and then shouting ?I withdraw the question,? leaving the prosecutor speechless The Jackal had instantly turned away furiously but not before an obese elderly female, using a miniature camera that was the handle of her purse, had snapped a series of automatically advanced photographs with ultra high-speed filmThat evidence was now in a vault in Rodchenko?s office The file was titled Surveillance of the American Male B On the page below the photograph showing the assassin and the American attorney together was the following: Subject with as yet unidentified contact during covert meeting at StMeeting covered eleven minutes and thirty-two prada fairy seco