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she had been crying. I mouthed, What's the matter?
She sat down next to me and whispered, "Martin's gone. I couldn't find any trace of
him." Her breath caught and her voice trembled. "Help me find him. Please."
I said I would and squeezed her hand.
She lifted worried eyes to mine. "Daphne, I'm afraid something's happened to him."
Audrey was last to arrive. She would have heard me gasp if Cormac's and Rogue's wolf
whistles hadn't drowned me out Her thick hair cut short, her tall, thin body showing off
a strapless denim minidress, she looked like a runway model. While the makeup was a
little much for a spy meeting, her appearance certainly had shock value. When had the
ugly duckling turned into a swan?
Noticing us all gaping at her, Audrey ducked her head in a manner that reminded me of
Princess Di and said, "I came straight from a fashion show on Seventh Avenue." A shy
smile lit up her face. "Elite's representing me."
A vampire as a runway model? Why not? We're everywhere, doing everything from
brain surgery to truck driving. We have no restrictions except for avoiding exposure to
sunlight, so, sure, none of us will ever win the U.S. Open or Wimbledon. But one of us
did win the Nobel Prize and the International Poker Tour.
Looking at Audrey's new self confidence, I felt some satisfaction. I had suggested that
she give modeling a try. She hadn't recognized the potential of her angularity, her high
cheekbones, her strong features. She had been worried about coming out of her shell.
She had protested she'd be bored.
But there she was, doing it.
"That's excellent cover for a spy." J nodded. "Good work. Now, let's get this meeting
started. First, can I get your reports? Agent Urban? Why don't you begin& "
"Benny and I spoke to an informant in the New York Police Department. A report of a
mysterious collision between an unseen vessel of some type and a support column of
the Outerbridge Crossing on Monday morning leads us to believe that the missing ship,
still either camouflaged or invisible, turned north and was sailing toward the Goethals
Bridge in the Arthur Kill shipping channel."
J looked visibly surprised. "Well done. Anything else?"
I looked at Benny. She shook her head.
"No," I responded. Anything else? I thought. So much else had happened, but I wasn't
willing to discuss either the attack on me or Darius's appearance in my apartment.
Chances were neither had anything to do with the Intrepid's disappearance. I had
learned long ago never to volunteer information. Answer just the question. Saying too
much is a leading cause of getting fucked, and not in a pleasurable way.
Rogue and Cormac took their turn next, with Rogue doing the talking. Cormac sat with
papers in his hand, ready to supply any details Rogue forgot, I guess. The two of them
had made queries along the waterfront. No one had seen any suspicious activity along
the river or in the harbor.
They had covered most of the West Side piers when they finally encountered a retired
sanitation worker who ran a twenty one foot cruiser out of City Island. He had heard a
rumor that about a month ago, a guy's fifty seven foot wooden ketch disappeared
from its mooring at the Miramar Yacht Club in Sheepshead Bay. The missing ketch
caused a big commotion.
Rogue showed some animation as he said, "Boaters in the area said it was there one
minute, gone the next. The marina called the owner "
Cormac broke into Rogue's narrative to say, "He runs a tire store in Hempstead. Name
of Ahmed Saud."
" who didn't want them to even look for it. Said he sent somebody to take it out. Two
days later the ketch "
"It was named the Petrel" Cormac interjected, now beginning to annoy the bigger man.
" was back in its berth. Same thing. The mooring was empty one minute, and the
next thing the sailboat was back. Nobody saw it coming into port. One yacht owner
said there was a mist or cloud, and a few minutes later he noticed the Petrel had
anchored in its slip as if it had never gone." Cormac opened his mouth. Rogue glared at
him.
"We're going to track down the owner and talk to him," Rogue finished up.
"So are you suggesting that this incident with the ketch was a practice run?" J asked.
"Could be."
"There's a world of difference between a fifty seven foot sailboat and an eight
hundred seventy two foot aircraft carrier. However, you might be onto something. If
that was a rehearsal, there might have been another one. With a larger ship. Check
into incidents involving barges or cargo freighters."
"Right," Rogue said.
"Audrey?" J asked. "You have anything to report?"
Audrey hesitated, clearing her throat. "I don't know if what I found is relevant, but it's
interesting, you know? I was doing an online search fooling around, focusing on the
Middle East. I was looking for an entity or a group having taken something of ours and
wanting something else in exchange in order to give it back. You follow me so far?" She
looked around. I nodded and so did the others.
"What I found sort of surprised me. Remember when Iran captured fifteen British
sailors in March 2007? It was headline news at the time. Iran claimed the British had
trespassed into their territorial waters. It was pretty clear from the start that the
sailors were over a mile from Iran's boundaries. Britain even produced satellite photos
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