Medusa’s Delta One would find out if he had to... Medusa’s Delta One would find out if he had to carve that skull apart
Jason pushed himself away from the window and walked around the cabin to the front doorHe
knocked twice with the knuckles of his left hand; in his right was the untraceable automatic
supplied by Alexander Conklin, the crown prince of dark operations
“It’s open, Rachel!” yelled the rasping voice from within
Bourne twisted the knob and shoved the door back; it swung slowly on its hinges and made
contact with the wall
“Jesus Christ!” roared the master sergeant, his heavy legs plunging off the ottoman as he
wriggled his massive body out of the chairYou’re a goddamned ghost! You’re dead!”
“Try again,” said Delta of Medusa“The name’s
chanel logo earrings Flannagan, isn’t it? That’s what comes to
mind
“You’re dead!” repeated the general’s aide, screaming, his eyes bulging in panic“You bought it
in Hong Kong! You were killed in Hong Kong four, five years ago!”
“You kept tabs—”
“We know I know!”
“You’ve got connections in the right places, then
“You’re Bourne!”
“Obviously born again, you might say
“I don’t believe this!”
“Believe, FlannaganIt’s the ‘we’ we’re going to talk aboutSnake Lady, to be precise
“You’re the one—the one Swayne called ‘Cobra’!”
“It’s a snake
“I don’t get it—”
“It’s confusing
“You’re one of us!”
“I wasI snaked back in, as it were
The sergeant frantically looked at the door, then the windows“How’d you get in here? Where
are the
omega usa guards, the dogs? Jesus! Where are they?”
“The dogs are asleep in the kennels, so I gave the guards the night off? The dogs are on the grounds!”
“Not any longerThey were persuaded to rest
“The guards—the goddamned guards!”
“They were persuaded to leaveWhat they think is happening here tonight is even more
confusing
“What’ve you done—what are you doing?”
“I thought I just mentioned itWe’re going to talk, Sergeant FlannaganI want to get caught up
with some old comrades
The frightened man backed awkwardly away from the chair“You’re the maniac they called
Delta before you turned and went in business for yourself!” he cried in a guttural whisper“There
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was a
cheap chanel purses picture, a photograph—you were laid out on a slab, bloodstains all over the sheet from the
bullet wounds; your face was uncovered, your eyes wide open, holes still bleeding on your
forehead and your throatThey asked me who you were and I said, ‘He’s DeltaDelta One from
the illegals,’ and they said, ‘No, he’s not, he’s Jason Bourne, the killer, the assassin,’ so I said,
‘Then they’re one and the same because that man is Delta—I knew him They thanked me and told
me to go back and join the others
“Who were ‘they’?”
“Some people over at LangleyThe one who did all the talking had a limp; he carried a cane
“And ‘the others’—they told you to go back and join?”
“About twenty-five or thirty of the old Saigon
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“Command Saigon?”
“Yeah
“Men who worked with our crowd, the ‘illegals’?”
“Mostly, yeah
“When was this?”
“For Christ’s sake, I told you!” roared the panicked aide“Four or five years ago! I saw the
photograph—you were dead!”
“Only a single photograph,” interrupted Bourne quietly, staring at the master sergeant“You
have a very good memory
“You held a gun to my headThirty-three years, two wars and twelve combat tours, nobody ever
did that to me—nobody but youYeah, I gotta good memory
“I think I understand
“I don’t! I don’t understand a goddamned thing! You were dead!”
“You’ve said thatBut I’m not, am I? Or maybe I amMaybe this is the nightmare that’s been
visited upon you after twenty years of
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