Jake Needham - Killing Plato
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I worked my way methodically through the first twenty pages or so while I ate my salad and drank white wine. Normally salads weren’t my kind of dinner, but this one was extraordinary and the deep sweetness of the chicken’s richly charcoaled flavor more than made up for the piles of rabbit food I had to negotiate in order to get at it.
Darcy didn’t say a word while I read and ate, but I wouldn’t really have minded if she had. There wasn’t much in what I was reading and conversation wouldn’t have been any real distraction. The first ten pages could have been a transcription of some broadcast on CNN. It was nothing but a routine biography, a summary of Karsarkis’ indictment, and a few notes on his subsequent disappearance. I had read deeper stuff in People Magazine.
The second ten pages were a little more interesting, but not much. They consisted of excerpts from something that looked like a transcript of a pretrial deposition, but since the preparations for Karsarkis’ trial had taken place several months before and been extremely well publicized, it contained nothing explosive. The excerpts were all from the testimony of Cynthia Kim, Karsarkis’ personal assistant who was later murdered in Washington, and they concerned various technical details about the organization of Karsarkis’ corporate empire. What’s more, I saw nothing in any of them that seemed to bear one way or another on Karsarkis’ claim he had been acting at the personal request of the President of the United States when he sold embargoed oil for the Iraqis.
I finished reading the transcripts, pushed my salad bowl away, and wiped my mouth with my napkin.
“Seems like a bunch of useless garbage,” I said, speaking for the first time since I had begun to read.
Darcy finished her wine and looked past me, nodding almost imperceptibly to someone. The young girl immediately reappeared and began to clear the table.
“How far have you gotten?” Darcy asked.
“To the end of the deposition transcripts. Does it get any better?”
Darcy ignored my question. “We’ve got some pretty good double chocolate cake from the Oriental Hotel,” she said instead. “Can I tempt you?”
I shook my head.
“Nope. With the summer heat and everything else, I haven’t been running very much. I can feel the flab already. Just coffee for me.”
“ Gafair dam song ,” Darcy said to the girl. Two black coffees.
coffees
The girl bobbed her head without raising her eyes and slipped away with such gliding grace that I watched her until she disappeared into the house.
“They get younger all the time, don’t they, Darcy?”
“Or we get older, baby,” she murmured. “Or we get older.”
Darcy looked away and drifted off into some private reverie, and I went back to reading the file while the girl returned and served coffee. I skimmed the printout as I finished my first cup, but after only a few pages I was lost.
“What the hell is this stuff?” I asked, glancing up at Darcy. “It looks like some kind of email, but it doesn’t have anything to do with Karsarkis.”
“It’s email all right. At first I thought it was Carnivore product they had been collecting on Karsarkis, but now-”
“What’s Carnivore product?” I interrupted.
“Carnivore is a program developed by the FBI to monitor email. It’s like a wiretap placed on an email account. The problem with it is the software has to be physically installed on the servers of the provider that has the email account you want to tap. It’s so easy for the target to shift providers that the process only works if the operation is entirely covert and the target has no reason to suspect he might be tapped. That would obviously be a problem in monitoring Karsarkis.”
“I guess I’ll start being more careful what I put in my email.”
“You should. In God we trust. All others we monitor.”
I chuckled. “You just make that up?”
“Nah. It’s an old Cryptocity line.”
Cryptocity was the way people in the know referred to the NSA headquarters complex at Ft. Mead in Maryland, just north of Washington. It was the closest I had ever heard Darcy come to admitting she had indeed been an NSA spook, but I didn’t comment.
“So what is this stuff?” I asked instead, tapping my forefinger on the printouts Darcy had made from the disk.
“Well…”
Darcy hesitated and I watched her carefully. She seemed to be weighing up something, but I had no idea what it was.
“I think this is Carnivore product, but not from surveillance of Karsarkis, and certainly not by the FBI.”
“I’m sorry, Darcy. You lost me.”
“Let me ask you something before I say any more, Jack.”
Darcy pursed her lips and looked out across her pool. She took her time and I didn’t rush her.
“Karsarkis is here in Thailand, isn’t he?”
“Yes,” I said. “He is.”
“And the feds know it and they’re after him?”
“Uh-huh.”
“What brand?”
“What do you mean?”
“What brand of feds. Is it the FBI? The Secret Service? Who’s out here after Karsarkis?”
I hesitated briefly, then I decided there was no reason not to tell her, so I did.
“The US Marshals.”
Darcy nodded slowly as if I had justif I had confirmed her worst suspicions.
“They don’t intend to bother with extradition.” She made a statement out of it, not a question.
“I don’t know that,” I said. “Not for sure.”
“But you think you do. You think they’re here to kidnap Karsarkis, don’t you?”
“Maybe,” I answered carefully.
Darcy nodded again and for a moment she studied a grove of banana trees over my shoulder.
“What you’ve got there,” Darcy said after a moment, inclining her head at the sheets of paper stacked on the table, “is the product NIA obtained from intercepting email between somebody who is out here and somebody who is back in Washington.”
“You mean the Thais have the FBI’s software and they’re using it to tap the marshals’ email?” I laughed out loud. “Damn.”
“I told you not to underestimate them, Jack.”
“So then they know all about the kidnapping plan.”
I thought I was beginning to see why the NIA was trying so hard to enlist me in bailing out Karsarkis’ sorry ass. If the marshals kidnapped the world’s most wanted fugitive from right under the Thais’ noses and spirited him back to Washington, the loss of face would be almost unthinkable; and if there is one thing the tolerant Thais absolutely cannot tolerate, it is loss of face. On the other hand, if Karsarkis were pardoned, then there would no longer be any need for a kidnapping and the whole problem would just go away. Neat.
“Now that you know what you’re looking at, read it again, Jack.” Darcy seemed to think for a time, then her expression hardened and she exhaled audibly. “Read it all again and tell me what you think it really says.”
The girl returned and refilled out coffee cups and I read the last dozen pages of the file again in silence.
This time I started to get a queasy feeling about halfway through. I glanced up at Darcy but she was looking away, apparently consulting the banana trees again. Then I went back and read it all a third time. I shifted in my chair, stretching my legs first one way and then another, but I couldn’t seem to make myself comfortable.
There was nothing explicit in the emails, of course. Whoever had written them had been very careful. There wasn’t a single sentence there I could quote to prove anything, certainly nothing that made it clear in so many words; but now I had no doubt at all what it was that I was really reading.
After the third time through I gathered all of the pages into a stack, squared them up at the edges, and put them back into the manila file. Then I moved my coffee cup to one side, clasped my hands together, and placed them on top of the file.
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