31 Escaping the NooseThe Beverly Hills mansion had become extremely claustrophobic as the months had passed since the meeting in Hyde Park. Cuckoo had kept Skinner close by and recently ordered Jim Sayer and Sakamoto San to join them, ready to go on the offensive once they had devised a workable plan.
‘We can’t wait forever, mon ami,’ Skinner said, as the four men sat by the mansion’s pool.
‘No, I know, but White still needs us - because if he didn’t the daily vials of medicine would have stopped long ago. Besides, if he’d wanted me dead in the first place he wouldn’t have met me in London,’ Cuckoo said, sipping a glass of iced tea.
‘Why don’t you let us go and track him down? You sit tight and we’ll persuade him to let you off the hook,’ Sayer interjected.
Cuckoo placed his head in hi
