Shoot Him If He Runs (Stone Barrington 14) - Page 47
“Hang on, I don’t even remember what the bet was about. How do I know you won?”
She grabbed him by the hair and drew his face into her lap. “Trust me,” she said.
They forgot about calling Lance.
25
Lance asked for and got an appointment with the director, and he presented himself at the appointed time. His morning conversation with Barker had been interesting.
“Good morning, Lance,” Kate Lee said, waving him to a chair. “What do you have to report?”
“We’ve identified a man in St. Marks as, possibly, Teddy Fay.”
“Great!”
“Stone Barrington interviewed a man at the airport who showed him a small airplane belonging to a recently arrived Englishman, calling himself Robertson. There’s no British paper on this character at all, so he’s obviously not who he says he is, and he more or less fits Teddy’s description.”
“Now what?”
“Problem is, Bill Pepper, on his own hook, has made a different identification.”
“Pepper’s our man in the casino down there, isn’t he? The computer whiz?”
“Right.”
“Who does Pepper think the man is?”
“He thinks he’s one of the four men who robbed a currency-transfer company at Heathrow a few months ago, name of Barney Cox.”
“I remember the incident; a hell of a lot of money, wasn’t it?”
“Over a hundred million quid.”
“Hard to handle that much cash, isn’t it?”
“Yes, but with careful planning, it could be done. Private jet to a country with amenable banks, numbered accounts, et cetera.”
“How much does a hundred million pounds sterling weigh?”
“Let’s see, the biggest sterling note is fifty pounds; you could get a million in a large briefcase.”
“So a hundred large briefcases would do it?”
“Or ten manageable-sized crates. As I recall, they used a large van to remove the money from Heathrow.”
“They’d need a big private jet, then.”
“Or a not-very-big cargo plane. Of course, the Brits would be all over that sort of flight.”
“They could truck it across the channel and fly from anywhere in Europe.”
“Yes, they could, if they waited for things to cool off enough.”
“So you think this Robertson could be Cox?”
“It’s possible.”
“Just as possible as if he’s Teddy Fay, then.”
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