know him?”
“Scott is an extraordinary detective. He will catch Richard’s killer, you can bet on it, Walton.”
“Can you give me a ride home? I've drunk far too much. I’ll pay for this.”
37
At 9:00 in the morning Colonel Reed had the video of the meeting between Richard Jenkins and Savannah, and he had already received a reply about which of the two men was Savannah; in fact, he had Savannah’s entire dossier from the British Secret Intelligence Service.
Jenkins was part of the Counterintelligence Division of US Intelligence and had been active for about a year, and now Reed also knew about the infectious diseases he had contracted as a child.
Reed did not believe in coincidences, and if Bouda had been connected to Richard for more than fifteen years and Savannah had actually eliminated Bouda, he would find clues, if not actual evidence, about their partnership. For this reason, he would continue searching for information on Savannah.
“Jago? Good morning. Better, thanks. Yes, I will be back at Biosketch Technologies tomorrow, but I need your help; I’m sending you a picture of Mark Savannah, a British agent. Try to find out about his last mission and who his father was. See you tomorrow.”
Reed was always a man of few words, accustomed to command, he never left room for debate. He immediately sent the data to Jago C. Green. He had caught Jago C. Green fifteen years earlier during an operation concerning industrial espionage and a government-owned biotech company; he was considered the best western hacker at the time and so Reed did not prosecute him but hired him to work on the "Transtem 1.1" and "Brainexe" projects for the CIA. He had shown great foresight given the results up to that time. Since then, Green had become his lieutenant.
It was no problem for him to browse the archives of the CIA without being detected or leaving any clues that he had been there. It was not necessary at this stage to go snooping around British archives: the operation had been managed jointly by the two intelligence services and there would definitely be a dossier on the operation in Afghanistan at Langley.
Then the Colonel gave two of his agents orders to go to JFK airport because the name Savannah was included on the passenger lists of British Airways flights departing for London. They were told to stop him and take him into custody.
Reed knew that Savannah had entered the U.S. a day before his son’s murder and that officially he was in the U.S. on a one-week vacation, which is why he was using his own name and not an alias.
Finally, he asked Green to monitor the photos taken by the cameras at airports with flights from New York to London in case Savannah did not show up on the scheduled day, and tried instead to return to UK in the next few days.
38
At 6:45 pm that same day, Jago C. Green sent the report about Savannah; it was encrypted and included in the daily report concerning Biosketch Technologies Inc.’s "Transtem 1.1" project.
Savannah was still wet behind the ears as an agent, but he had conducted and successfully completed the joint operation "Uday, who runs fast" in collaboration with U.S. intelligence, killing the world’s most wanted terrorist and redeeming the tarnished images of both the British Secret Intelligence Service and the CIA.
Green did not find anything else; there was no alias or real name listed. Research through all the archives of Langley, including the analysis of single operations or events, had produced no results. It was impossible to match his name to any previous agents. Jago C. Green still had no clue as to the identity of Savannah’s father.
At the bottom of the report, he noted that Savannah had not boarded the flight from New York to London.
‘You know everything, you bastard,’ the Colonel thought to himself as he read the document that Green had sent him. "That's why you killed Richard...but before you can get to me, you’re going to
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