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Steve Abbott: Devil's Gambit

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Steve Abbott Devil's Gambit
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    Devil's Gambit
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NEST – Nuclear Emergency Search Team. Specialists activated in the event of a nuclear incident. Three nuclear warheads complete with their delivery systems have been stolen from a Russian missile base. It’s up to Captain Gayle Ecevit USAF and her joint Russian team to find and secure the missing devices, with the help of two members of the SAS. All the signs point towards North Korea but to what end? Were they taken to be reverse engineered to bolster their struggling weapons program or are they to be used for a darker purpose, to start the Korean War all over again. The answers might lie with a recent North Korean Defector sitting in a CIA safe house but maybe he’s a plant, put forward by North Korean Intelligence to muddy the waters. MI6 has it’s eyes on a shadowy South African arms dealer who specializes in smuggling nuclear materials. Gayle and her team must sift through all the possibilities and come to the right answer. A new Korean War hangs in the balance.

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Stealing nuclear devices on behalf of his North Korean clients held little in the way of a moral dilemma for him. The challenge of the contract suited his ego and the ensured payment suited his preferred lifestyle.

Today’s emergency meeting showed the plan had made it to the very top levels. Obviously they were pressed for time. No doubt the International Atomic Energy Commission had brought pressure to bear in the wrong place. Verkatt felt a moment of pity for Chun, but only a moment. Chun was just a pawn, a casualty of someone else’s grand scheme. His demise was orchestrated by one man and signed off by others. Verkatt could appreciate the irony. Chun had personally picked and groomed Sung. All of his work would gain him little more than his final years in a reeducation camp. That was why the South African always worked alone. The Koreans had met his price without batting an eye. Verkatt made the appropriate turn and there it was: a steel-sided warehouse.

Faded oriental characters were painted at the top of windows, the insides of which were coated with years of impenetrable filth. Underneath the characters in English, was the company name, Park and Sons, Import and Export. Verkatt parked his car some ways down the street; no need to call any more attention to these events than necessary.

Фото

A series of fiber optic lenses mounted in a mock junction box on top of a telephone pole across the street from the warehouse fed their images down thin glass fibers a mile long. The box was also transparent to radio emissions. A special wide band receiver monitored every signal and phone call that emanated from the warehouse communication lines. Every piece of visual and transmitted information went from the junction box to a small, nondescript office, well down the street. The office was cramped and dingy, and filled with more television and radio monitoring equipment than some professional studios.

Two members of MI6’s South African division watched Verkatt get out of his car. The two security officers, more commonly called “watchers” by their peers, tracked Verkatt up to the front doors of Park and Sons. They saw him go inside.

“Recognize him?” Don Evans, a three-year veteran of the Cape Town operation, looked over at Frank Weston, his partner.

“Andrew Verkatt.”

“Sure?”

Frank had been part of Cape Town a lot longer, ten years. “There’s only one Andrew Verkatt. He’s been dealing with this lot for a couple of years now. First time I’ve ever seen him here though. They usually go for covert meets. Must be some kind of emergency to drag all of him down here. Better get a time log going.”

Evans moved to punch the time and date on a keyboard nearby. “Okay, done.”

Weston looked over at a still image of Verkatt frozen on one of the video monitors. “Yeah, that’s him. I’d recognize the fat bastard anywhere.”

Фото

One of Mr. Park’s aides moved Verkatt through the seedy, run-down front office and into a more luxurious main office at the rear of the building. Park sat behind a modern computer desk, watching a display of Korean characters scroll rapidly by. The scrolling stopped and the computer let out a long beep. Park read the message and grunted to himself. He turned off the monitor with a flick of his wrist and turned to face Verkatt.

Park was small and lithe, dark skinned, even for a Korean. He favored Verkatt with a reptilian smile and stood to shake the South African’s hand. Verkatt made himself comfortable in the high-backed chair in front of Park’s desk.

“Mister Verkatt. So glad that you could make it on such short notice.”

“I’m sorry, we have not yet met. I thought I would be dealing with the other Mister Park.”

The current Mr. Park shook his head with remorse, “I am afraid he was recalled.”

Verkatt covered his worry well. “I see.” He clapped his hands together, “Well let’s not let that stand in the way of our business.”

Park nodded, “Pyongyang needs the requested units sooner than expected. Can you deliver?”

Verkatt, never one to miss an opportunity to exploit a situation, made a point of considering the question with a grave look on his face. “It will be more difficult. Difficult requires greater risk, which of course requires more money.”

Park had been briefed to expect no less from Verkatt. The current message on his screen authorized him to make any transactions necessary to secure Verkatt’s services. Odorous as the man was, he did, after all, get results. “I would expect nothing less for your trouble. How much more will be required to complete all phases?”

“Forty million US, in equivalent Deutsche Marks, to be deposited to this account, within the next forty eight hours.” Verkatt handed Park a card with the address of a bank in Luxembourg and the account number. Park took it and placed it on his desk.

“It will be done at once.”

Verkatt gave a slight nod of his head to show trust, where there was none. “As soon as the deposit is verified, I will be in touch through the normal channels. A meeting like this again puts us all at risk. I prefer to work through cutouts.”

Park bowed his head slightly, “As do I, but orders are orders.”

Verkatt rose to leave. As far as he was concerned, their business was completed. But Park was not yet finished. For all of his smooth and dangerous demeanor, he was still no more than a party man.

“How soon will we have them?”

Verkatt turned slowly, “Give me three days to find out.”

“We will be waiting.”

“Of course. As soon as I know, so will you.” Verkatt left the office. One of Park’s aides closed the door behind him. The aide turned to Park with raised eyebrows. “He is arrogant.”

The reptile crossed Park’s face again, “Men like him always are, but he gets results. We can stand his arrogance for the time being.”

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The two MI6 men watched Verkatt come out of the warehouse. The multiple lenses of the phony junction box followed his progress down the street to his parked rental car. The license and rental agency were noted. The car would be rented by one of the Pretoria watchers before the rental cleaning staff had a chance to destroy any evidence. A team would then dust the car for Verkatt’s fingerprints and search for any other evidence of his meeting. Frank Weston was curious. Verkatt dealt almost exclusively in nuclear materials. Nobody in the Pretoria operation had heard any rumblings from inside the South African National Intelligence Service. The service was still widely penetrated by MI6. If there were any hints of pending sales through back door channels, they were being very quiet about it. Now that they were part of the world stage in a big way, they were doing everything in their power to keep that side of things out in the open. To have a creature like Verkatt meet out in the open like this, the Koreans must already have a mission running. Frank voiced his doubts to Don.

“He looks far too pleased with himself. Don’t the Koreans usually deal out of the Belgian Congo?”

Don nodded, “Usually this place is just for emergency meets and supplying cheap TV’s and VCR’s for the party faithful back home in the fatherland.”

“Well he’s in on something and from the way he’s smiling, it’s worth big cash to him. We’d better send this lot on. The Colonel is going to want to know about this.”

Don pulled the time-coded tape out of one of the machines. The current label for the day was applied to its face. To avoid the kinds of questions that intelligence agencies don’t like to answer, the cover for their office was that it produced industrial safety films. This tied in nicely with the amount of audio and video equipment stacked everywhere. The tape was then put in a bubble wrap envelope marked with the prominent logo of a major express delivery service. Most of these delivery services were as secure as and faster than the old ways of transportation. This one would go out on the next truck in about an hour.

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