Double Back by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781741759297
Publisher: Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd

CHAPTER 35

Mac ordered the Golden Lantern’s famous duck and a couple of beers, then sat back.

‘You okay?’ asked Davidson, examining Mac’s face.

‘I’m tired,’ said Mac, sipping at a cold beer while the throng of Denpasar passed on the street. ‘But I’m okay.’

‘You’d tell me, wouldn’t you?’

‘Sure, Tony,’ said Mac, well aware that, in the intelligence game, emotional or psychological problems were an express lane to a desk job.

‘Okay,’ said Davidson, casing the restaurant, ‘get some rest and you’ll be contacted by your new controller tomorrow.’

‘We know who?’

‘Yep. Jim, from DIA,’ said Davidson.

‘Why the Yanks?’ asked Mac, thinking back to his chat with Jim in Darwin.

‘They’ve been on Bill Yarrow for a while, as I understand,’ said Davidson. ‘They don’t like the company he keeps. Now they hear an Aussie officer’s been in this, um, facility . . .’

‘Lombok AgriCorp?’

‘That’s the one – it’s of interest to the Pentagon.’

‘Why?’

Davidson took a swig of his beer. ‘When was the last time anyone from DIA spoke to you in a full sentence?’

‘Probably the last time I saw rocking-horse manure,’ said Mac.

‘Done any work on our presidential problem?’ asked Davidson, lowering his voice.

‘I haven’t been able to find Rahmid’s controller,’ said Mac. ‘Although I think he was working out of a front in KL.’

Unfolding his hotel stationery, Mac gave Davidson the phone numbers and addresses of Penang Trading and Andromeda IT, which Davidson jotted on his detective’s pad.

‘The controller is going to be difficult,’ said Mac, ‘but I think we’ve found who Rahmid was running as an agent in Dili.’

As Davidson went to write the name and address on his pad, he stopped and looked up at Mac. ‘That’s PT Watu Selatan,’ he said, looking around the restaurant. ‘That’s a company set up by Soeharto’s generals!’

‘Yeah, I know,’ said Mac.

‘Good work, mate,’ said Davidson. ‘But it’s still hush-hush, okay?’

‘Sure, Tony. Are we going to approach this guy?’

‘We have to,’ said Davidson.

‘Be careful who you send,’ warned Mac.

‘Careful doesn’t come close,’ said Davidson.

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