Chapter Six
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Chapter Six
Call it intuition, or maybe just anxiety, but things seemed to be going too well; this was no time to sit back and relax.
Kostchenko knew he was pretty good at playing the espionage game, but he was also smart enough to know that he probably wasn’t the best, especially since he was on foreign soil; the winner had the ability to use unfolding events to his advantage, and the secret was to be able to identify those events when they occurred.
His exit from The Mall area included a transfer on the metro from the blue line to the red line, and he emerged from the system at the Woodley Park - Zoo Station, where his driver awaited his arrival.
The driver smoothly entered the flow of traffic, and carefully adjusted both outside mirrors, as well as the rear-view mirror, so he could watch the trailing traffic in an effort to detect any vehicles that might take an interest in his car.
“What do you think, Georgii,” Kostchenko asked the driver.
“I didn’t spot anything, but I sometimes get this feeling,” the driver said as his voice trailed off into silence.
“I know what you mean,” Kostchenko said. “I’m worried about that man.”
The driver, Major Georgii Dobrenko, never took his eyes off the road, except to check the rear-view mirror about every 15 seconds, and although he didn’t say much, he listened intently. He knew the man being referred to was the one for whom his superior had just made the drop.
“I don’t trust him”, Kostchenko said. “He is extremely weak, and it would not take much to break him. I must be very careful about the way I handle him, but I want you to plan for unforeseen problems which might arise; do you understand?” he asked.
“I understand completely, Colonel Kostchenko,” the driver said, as he once again glanced into the rear-view mirror. Michaels’ death sentence had just been issued.
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