Chapter Thirty-Three
Knowing that Kostchenko gave the order to have Cheryl and Penny killed was important.
If Kostchenko’s job was to protect Davis and his mission, as Darque suspected, the KGB agent would not be in a position to arbitrarily decide who and how many people could be eliminated to achieve that goal: someone else had given the order to remove the two individuals in order to maintain the security of the operation. Whoever made that decision must have assumed the victims had no connection with the FBI or other interested agency. If there had been a connection, the wreck would have drawn immediate and unwanted scrutiny. Like Darque, it would have taken a lot of convincing to believe that a tailor-made wreck like the one that occurred was an accident.
The other side of the coin
