The operation would have been a total success, and Sperling would have risen to next in line for Trevor Wallace’s position, only Vincent had insisted on having that fool from the DGSE on his team.
Claude Whatever-his-name-was had been incompetent. The plan was for him to be captured, and he had been. It wasn’t Sperling’s fault things happened and the mission needed to be scrubbed at the last minute. Claude should have been grateful just to be allowed to be part of it. Besides, he wasn’t important. None of the men involved were important, but Vincent hadn’t seen it that way. He’d been making things even more difficult for Sperling ever since.
Well, Vincent was going to see you didn’t cross Robert Sperling.
It had taken more work than Sperling had expected to find someone Vincent cared ab
