"Дон Пендлтон. The Libya Connection ("Палач" #48) " - читать интересную книгу автора

boy's been getting mighty uppity lately and the Kremlin's looking for a new
puppet hereabouts. Shahkhia seems to be it. We've only been onto this since
last night.
"The conversation we picked up over the embassy line indicates that the
Russians are giving Shahkhia the necessary backing and that the coup is set
to happen immediately. Shahkhia spoke like someone with a wide base of
Libyan support too. Most likely in the military. Considering the timing of
Jericho's operation, and Jericho's intense hatred for Khaddafi, I'd say
Shahkhia is our best bet as the buyer for whatever Jericho has diverted over
here."
"Is Jericho at the villa now?" Bolan's reaction was biased toward
action. Enough talk.
"We don't know, Colonel Phoenix. My guess is that the cargo itself is
in the possession of this Kennedy guy, the mercenary. His force probably is
at the villa in Bishabia. Meanwhile Jericho is off somewhere making the
final negotiations with Shahkhia, or Shahkhia's people."
"What kind of force does Kennedy have?"
"Paramilitary all the way," said the Company man. "U.S. mercs, mostly.
We've not been able to get an accurate manpower count. We do know there have
been three or four civilian. Huey choppers inside the estate walls of that
villa at one time or another recently."
"What happens to the real Mike Rideout?" asked Bolan.
"He'll still be home by the end of the week, just like Jericho's people
told him he would," smiled Lansdale.
"One more thing," grunted Bolan. "I must locate a woman, an agent from
Puerto Rico, who Jericho is holding prisoner. She's here in Libya with him.
Her name is Eve Aguilar."
"Nothing on that, I'm afraid," said Lansdale in his languorous, East
Coast prep-school style. "The most I can tell you is that Shahkhia is
rumored to have a taste for Western women. Maybe Jericho has something in
mind along those lines..."
The two men were only paces from the door. The meeting had come to an
end.
"One last thing. I guess I should warn you about," said Lansdale. "It's
something that's been coming through one of the other stations. But we're
getting it only one piece at a time. The word is that the Israeli Mossad has
already planted an agent of their own in the villa at Bishabia. No
connection with us. You have been warned."
Bolan smiled coldly.
"Name of the game," he said, by way of a farewell.
Bolan left the covert complex to rejoin the Benghazi street scene
outside. He had a phone call to make. To a man named Kennedy.
Yeah. Libya was definitely booming.
The Executioner was here to make sure it stayed that way.
But with a bigger boom, in the manner of Mack Bolan.

5

They sent a jeep into Benghazi to pick up Bolan at a designated corner
in the busy waterfront district.