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@@@@@ ?He did something he wouldn?t approve of if he had more information on whom he did it with ?That sounds positively Freudian, even medically imprudent ?Both are part of it, I guessHe made an outside unsanctioned deal with a man named Dimitri Krupkin at the Russian embassy here in ParisWe?ll be working with the local KGB?you, me, Bourne and Marie?if and when we find themHopefully, in Rambouillet in an hour or so ?What are you saying?? asked Mo, astonished and barely audible ?Long story, short timeMoscow wants the Jackal?s head, the rest of him separated from it Washington can?t feed us or protect us, so the Soviets will act as our temporary paterfamilias if we find ourselves in a bind Panov frowned, then shook his head as though absorbing very strange information, then spoke ?I suppose it?s not your run-of-the-mill development, but there?s a certain logic, even comfort, to it ?On paper, Mo,? said Conklin?Not with Dimitri Krupkin ?Oh? He?s one of the evil people?? ?Kruppie evil? No, not really?? ?Kruppie?? ?We go way back as young hustlers to Istanbul in the late sixties and Athens after that, then Amsterdam laterKrupkin?s not malevolent, and he works like a son of a bitch for Moscow with a damn good second-rate mind, better than eighty percent of the clowns in our business, but he?s got a problemHe?s fundamentally on the wrong side, in the wrong societyHis parents should have come over with mine when the Bolsheviks took the throneYour family was Russian ?Speaking the language helps with KruppieI can nail his nuancesHe?s the quintessential capitalistLike the economic ministers in Beijing, he doesn?t just like money, he?s obsessed with it?and everything that goes with itOut of sight and out of sanction, he could be bought Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM 308 ?You mean by the Jackal?? ?I saw him bought in Athens by Greek developers selling additional airstrips to Washington when they knew the Communists were going to throw us out