Thursday April 13th – 10:52 A.M. – Manhattan
10th
Avenue – DEA Offices
Greg paced from one end of the conference room to the other,
his hands folded behind his back as Kelli took another sip of her coffee. “He
said that it goes deeper? What do you think he meant by that,” he said and
stopped next to her.
She looked up at him and shrugged. “He wouldn’t tell me
anything else, not until you guys promise to protect him,” she said as she set
the cup down. “So what’s the problem? You didn’t hesitate to make a deal with
Rostov, why are you dragging your feet on this one?”
“It’s not that simple. Rostov came to us with this
information, and we acted on that information. We got Buryakov, several of his
men and a warehouse full of drugs. And yes, I know that we missed getting
Andropov, but we did shut down this part of his operation, and that’s going to
hurt him.”
“And what the fuck do you think he’s going to do when he
gets back to Russia? You think he’s just going to retire, sit back and lick his
wounds? No, he going to get together with Martinez and plan a new operation,
maybe run it straight out of Mexico, or one of the islands. But then, I suppose
that’s not your problem,” she said, feeling her face get hot.
Greg stepped back, waving his hands in front of him. “I
didn’t say we weren’t going after him, it’s just a little more complicated than
that, okay? Since he has diplomatic immunity, we’re going to have to get the
State Department involved, and they’re going to want a lot more than what we
have on him, which right now is nothing. We need something tying Andropov to
the drugs, to the murders.”
Kelli took a deep breath, relaxed her fist and slowly
nodded. “You’re right, everything we’ve got points to Buryakov,” she said,
shaking her head. “Well, you’ve got to give Andropov credit, he covers his
tracks well. But I still think we can use Buryakov, all you have to do is get
your boss to sign off on it.”
“I don’t know; it’s not going to be easy. You really think
he’s telling the truth, that maybe this really is just the surface?”
“Only one way to find out, ask him.”
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