The Brodsky Affair by Ken Fry
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Call us off, Captain. Collars off! I think your birds have flown. Kolosov started recognising the hard edged voice is that of his earlier mystery caller. Who is this? Listen! Call us off. Listen hard. Look for a red Mini Cooper Registration number 21 a x 601 An Englishman Mr Mountain Staying at the Kharkiv Hotel. You will find he can help you with your enquiries. Before he could answer or attempt to trace the line went dead for a moment. He paused, but he couldn't let any lead be ignored. He shouted out to his deputy, Zaroff, take some back up and get to the car keys. Hotel pickup A Mr Mountain. He's English and bring him in for questioning. You may know something about all this. Be quick about it on the radio. Me when you've done go, For ****'s sake! Go! As his man left, Kolosov fumbled for his lighter. He didn't ignite the tobacco, but continued tamping it down with the bottom of the lighter. I'm struggling here. This is not looking straight forward. Why would a mystery caller put the finger on an unknown Englishman? I'm looking forward to meeting Mr Mountain Outside, Through the windows came the unmistakable explosions, lights and spluttering cascades of 1000 fireworks. Russia Day was a celebrated occasion, but for Dr Katherine Danny Love ever, he thought the last sound she'd heard was the crack of her neck breaking man. Two knew that before they did anything else, they had to get out of Kharkov. Tamsin floored the pedal that speeds higher than permitted by the Russian highway code, snaking the mini through the downtown traffic and ignoring Kharkov, strict parking laws screeching to a halt outside the Kharkiv Hotel. For Mountain, the journey spanned an eternity. He knew they were up to their eyeballs in deep ****. Pack our bags. Just chuck everything in while I settle the bill. Come on Go! Wrenching the car door open and grabbing the room key from reception, Tamsin leaped into a stationary lift to their room. Mountain settled with the cashier, paying with cash. Within five minutes, she arrived back in the lobby. With both cases, I've checked. There's nothing left behind. Great! Let's fly from here. How do we know they're looking for us? We don't. Doesn't it strike you as odd that since I obtained those paintings. A couple of dead people have appeared. The Brodsky Connexion is the big giveaway, and I don't want to hang around to see if the police wanted or not. Remember, they could have seen your email by now and know we would do there this evening. With little time to climb inside the mini, he heard the sound of police cars and could see the faint blue flashing of their duty lights. This is too much of a coincidence, for heaven's sake. Move it, Thompson. She needed no prompting and that maximum revved in all gears rolled away from the hotel entrance. The sound's faded away. A mountain didn't doubt they had stopped at the car keys. Where we going? I was Tamsin. He noticed the tremor in her voice as she stared hard at the road ahead, refusing to slow for any other vehicle. We're going to the airport and you're going home. I'm going home on my own. Not bloody likely. I'll be the judge of that. Look, if anybody wants to find us, the airport is the first place they'll go. I'm swapping cars. They'll trace that easily. There are a dozen car hire agencies at the airport. We'll pick up from another firm. It's not hard to guess. The police will think I've hopped on a flight somewhere. All that checking takes time. Anyway, we'll use your name. That should complicate it for them and give me more time. More time for what? So you mean us? She swerved the car to avoid a large container lorry barreling across an intersection. ****, he was oblivious. More time for me to read that file. I'm convinced that Brodsky's paintings have a lot to do with what's going on here. And if I'm right, we can get to the bottom of who is behind all this. Is that all you can think of in a time like this? Shouldn't the police be doing that? There's been a murder back there. I can't let that get in the way. If I did, I'd lose every opportunity for what could be a major discovery. We killed nobody. Forget it. Holy crap, What's with you? She went quiet for a minute, and he said Nothing. Look without me, you'll get picked up faster than a £50 note blowing across the street. I don't like it, but I'm staying now. Argument understood what that does to our relationship. I can work out later