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once, MrBourne, and if it doesn?t sink in, you may stay here by yourself and take the
consequences! But we must leaveIf you get hold of yourself, we?ll be in touch with the proper
officials of your government within the hour from ParisI?ve read the warning to you and I can
assure you your own people are capable of protecting your family?as your family was explained
to me by AlekseiBut you, yourself, must be part of that communicationYou can become rational,
MrBourne, or you can go to hellWhich will it be??
The Chameleon, straining against the knees pinning him to the ground, exhaled as if it were his
final breathHis eyes came into focus and he said, ?Get these bastards off me
?One of those bastards saved your life,? said Conklin
?And I saved one of theirs
The armor-plated Citro?n sped down the country road toward the Paris highwayOn the
scrambled cellular telephone, Krupkin ordered a team to Epernon for the immediate removal of
what was left of the Russian backup vehicleThe body of the slain man had been placed carefully
in the Citro?n?s trunk, and the official Soviet comment, if asked for, was one of noninvolvement:
Two lower-level diplomatic staff had gone out for a country lunch when the massacre occurred
Several killers were in stocking masks, the others barely seen as the staff members escaped through
a back door, running for their livesWhen it was over they returned to the restaurant, covering the
victims, trying to calm the hysterical women and the lone surviving manThey had called their
superiors to report the hideous incident and were instructed to inform the local police and return at
once to the embassySoviet interests could not be jeopardized by the accidental presence at the
scene of an act of French criminality
?It sounds so Russian,? Krupkin said
?Will anyone believe it?? Alex wondered
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?It doesn?t matter,? answered the Soviet?Epernon reeks of a Jackal reprisalThe blown-apart
old man, two subordinate terrorists in stocking masks?the S?ret? knows the signsIf we were
involved, we were on the correct side, so they won?t pursue our presence
Bourne sat silently by the windo
