Sunday, May 2, 2010 - Alex Conklin called several hours ago and said...
Alex Conklin called several hours ago and said somebody named
Holland would reach usI gather he?s the chief honcho of your intelligence serviceDid he??
?Yeah, about twenty minutes after I talked to AlexHe told us we were being choppered out
around two o?clock this afternoonHe needed the time to clear a military aircraft in here
Cooper was my idea; your backward son says he doesn?t know how to change diapers, sport
David, what the hell is going on? Where?s Marie??
?She?s all right?I?ll explain everything laterJust do as Holland saysDid he say where you
were being taken??
?He didn?t want to, I?ll tell you thatBut no ****ing American?s going to order me and your kids
around?my Canadian sister?s kids?and I told him that in a seven spade flush
?That?s nice, JohnnyMake friends with the director of the CIA
?I don?t give a **** louis vuitton travel bags on that scoreIn my country we figure those initials mean Caught In the Act,
and I told him so!?
?That?s even nicerWhat did he say??
?He said we were going to a safe house in Virginia, and I said mine?s pretty goddamned safe
right here and we had a restaurant and room service and a beach and ten guards who could shoot
his balls off at two hundred yards
?You?re full of tactAnd what did he say to that??
Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
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?Actually, he laughedThen he explained that his place had twenty guards who could take out
one of my balls at four hundred yards, along with a kitchen and room service and television for the
kids that I couldn?t match
?That?s pretty persuasive
?Well, he said something else that was even more persuasive that I really couldn?t matchHe
told me there was no public access to the bag by louis vuitton place, that it was an old estate in Fairfax turned over to
the government by a rich ambassador who had more money than Ottawa, with its own airfield and
an entrance road four miles from the highway
?I know the place,? said Bourne, wincing at the noise of the patisserie?It?s the Tannenbaum
estateHe?s right; it?s the best of the sterile houses
?I asked you before?where?s Marie??
?She?s with me
?She found you!?
?Later, JohnnyI?ll reach you in Fairfax Jason hung up the phone as his wife awkwardly made
her way through the crowd and handed him a pink plastic cup with a blue plastic spoon plunged
into a mound of dark brown
?The children?? she asked, raising her voice to be heard, her eyes on fire
?Everything?s fine, better than we might have expectedAlex reached the same conclusion about
the Jackal as I didPeter Holland?s flying d
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