Deep Sea One (33 page)
Authors: Preston Child
Tags: #A&A, #Antarctica, #historical, #military, #thriller, #WW II
When they arrived at Ashton House a few hours later, Nina and Sam learned that Calisto was not a police officer from Spain, but that she was an operative for PIDE, the Portuguese Secret Service long disbanded . . . or was it? She was sent to steal the strains from Purdue's mansion when he caught her burgling his home. After she worked her way in and discovered where the strains were kept, she intercepted them, as initially ordered, to prevent Eickhart's man from getting his hands on it.
"Bitch could have warned us," Nina jested, and Sam squeezed her hand with a reluctant smile.
Patrick, even though with a wide berth, had fulfilled his mission objective and Mrs. Lancashire was pleased with his performance. What happened to Purdue, nobody knew, but Sam was grateful that he made copies of everything and saved his laptop to prove it.
"Come on, Cleave, I believe you owe me breakfast," Nina said, as their car waited to take her home.
Patrick sniggered and made suggestive gestures at Sam, who simply gave him the finger and got in the car.
Under the calming surface of the North Sea, Deep Sea One joined the German submarine it had stood sentinel over for ages. Iron junk and debris floated downward through the dark blue of the deep to settle among the rest of the steel graveyard already waiting. In subdued silence it was laid to rest to join all the wraiths begotten by the greed of the Third Reich.
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