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“So she got half the oals were met Probably the explosion in Lafayette, the death of To up the loose ends like Sykes, Donohue and the Latinos”
“What about Turkekul?” asked Annabelle
“He’s a special case At first I just thought that she had seized an opportunity that had presented itself, but now I’m not so sure”
“I’ what you mean”
“I’m not sure I do either We’ll just have to see how that plays out Any way to see where the money went?”
She shook her head “The cops have put pressure on Swiss banks to open up their records and they’ve complied That’s pushed
a lot of the illegal transactions to the Caribbean And the islanders have not been as coet those answers”
“I think I ht have a way to find some,” said Stone
“But Friedman has half a billion dollars at her disposal That will fund an excellent escape plan”
“Yes, it will But she has some problems”
“Her employer?”
“She tries to run now it puts up signals they can intercept She may think if she bides her time they’ll lose their focus on her and move on to other matters”
“But she er one or more of the cartels with the assassination atte out there Now she’s becoainst them”
“She’s a very s All the more reason for her to take it slow And that’s only one side of the equation”
“Meaning the cops co after her on the other end”
“Yes I’m sure by now Friedman knoe’re on to her”
As Annabelle gathered her things in preparation to leave she said, “If Alex doesn’t et on without him, Oliver?”
She looked like she was going to start crying again Stone put his arhtly He let Annabelle Conroy, possibly the eneration, but a wo of loyalty, sob quietly into his shoulder
When she was done Stone said, “We can never get on without him, Annabelle All we can do is just survive each day as it co of that than most people”
She nodded dumbly and then left Stone watched her drive off and then went back inside his cottage
Stone made a call to someone he’d only recently met, but hom he’d formed a permanent alliance
Joe Knox said hello on the other end of the phone
“Joe, it’s Oliver Stone”
Theit was going to take before you called me in on this I’ll be at your place in an hour”
CHAPTER 90
JOE KNOX WAS A BURLY MAN who at age fifty still had the build of the college linebacker he had once been He and Stone had spent ti had the benefit of a trial ned to hunt Stone down by what turned out to be a rogue superior at the CIA But having survived the prison ordeal largely by trusting each other, Knox and Stone had developed a strong friendship
“I’ve followed it all,” Knox told Stone as they sat across froe “Either in the papers or else scuttlebutt, official or otherwise, at the Agency” Alex Ford had helped Knox’s daughter find her father when he’d been kidnapped and slapped in that prison, and Knox had never forgotten that The expression on thein the people who’d put Alex near death
“Let’s not waste time then,” replied Stone “Which Mexican cartel has recently e amounts of money in the Caribbean bank chains and then rescinded a half-billon-dollar payment?”
“It’s not good, Oliver”