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‘She asked me to take her to the SIS building that was all.’

‘When she got out of your cab, was she carrying anything?’

‘Well, she was holding her purse when she took out money to pay me and I could also see in her
other hand she was holding an envelope. I’d seen in me mirror the American bloke give it to her.’

‘Thanks Mo, you have been very helpful. If you want an early start can you take me to Perivale?’

Back in my apartment, I thought through what I had learned that morning.

Mex had been accompanied by Gabriela who I now knew was a Russian and was the Psychopath
who had killed Mick Hagley, Frank Furlong and Rose Corbett. Was Mex a Russian agent?

I could only presume they had been following Anne and whether they had seen Warner carrying
the envelope when he had got into the cab or not, they must have continued following the cab
after they had been stopped and seen Anne with the envelope in her hand when she paid the
cabby.

If they thought the envelope was the Guatemalan memo then they obviously wanted to destroy it.
At any traffic light or road junction, they could have attached the magnetic bomb to her car or even

asked a backup to place the explosive device for them. When Anne reached home, it was not she
they wanted to get rid of but the memo. What they did not realise was, the memo Warner had
given Anne was meaningless; something concocted in Moscow, probably by Colonel Chernetskaya.

Today’s events proved just how important the real memo was, to Mex at least.

The more I thought about what had happened the past couple of months the more a niggling

inconsistency came to the fore. Everything came back to roost at Russia. The money was Russian,
Mex had transferred it to a Russian mole, Warner, Gabriela wasn’t working for the CIA she was
KGB; Mex was tied into Gabriela which made him a Russian mole so why had the intercepts, true or
false, been sent to Anne? She was an expert in Middle East affairs. The expert in Russian affairs was
Fred Callaway, her boss. Why were the intercepts not sent to him that would seem more logical?

Fred was his usual nervous, agitated self. His voice dropped to almost a whisper when I asked him if
he had seen the intercepts Anne had received.

‘If Anne had never received them then she would still be alive, wouldn’t she Bryant?’

‘Probably.’

‘That makes me feel so bad. I feel so responsible.’

‘Why?’

‘The intercepts came to me first but Barker instructed me to hand them straight over to him.’

‘Why did they come to you first?’