CHAPTER 19So how was it possible even for Christina O’Donnell to have been in two places at once? The scene of the fiasco in Golders Green this afternoon when he, Vic Simmons, had almost ensnared her, almost had her in the palm of his hand, and now when one Anthony St. Clements, another member of the late Alex Chadwell’s elite army of associates, gets blown to kingdom come in his expensive Porsche motor? This time the killer had dispensed with using a shooter, had turned to using explosive instead. And why was there a strange disturbingly sinister pattern emerging from all this? Brendan McIllvaney, the gunman who had been with Christina O’Donnell this afternoon, had also served time in Belfast’s Crumlin Road jail for gun running to the IRA. Had he then, in company with the O’Donnell girl,
