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“What do you have for me?” he asked in a voice as cold as ice

“The wiretap has been extended,” thevoice

“Do not bleat at s I already know from other sources”

Intimidation sometimes worked with this man, as he yielded infor his usefulness to Vishenko

The h to supplement the man’s lifestyle, not support it Vishenko had made sure of it He wanted hiency eh this man was one of the weapons in Vishenko’s arsenal, he never let on just how important his information had become over the years or paid him what the infornificance, as he was doing now Vishenko hadn’t heard the FBI’s wiretap had been extended But he knew it now

Not that he ever said anything incri over the phone He wasn’t stupid His ho Island—as well as this car, were electronically swept for listening devices daily Everyone who met with him was screened by his ency would ever convict him that way

“So what do you have to telllike this?”

“The agency has been sending out feelers again,” the encies haven’t worked together since their joint task force was disbanded six o The joint task force focused on your nephew and his super PAC, NOANC”

“Michael is in jail, and will remain in jail And his political action corew even colder “What does this have to do with me? The task force tried—and failed—to establish a link between Michael and me, other than the familial one We are related, yes But that is all The joint FBI/agency task force could never prove otherwise”

And they never will, he thought but didn’t say He’d been extremely careful to keep his distance from Michael Vishenko’s plots and schemes, the product of his nephew’s uncontrollable desire for revenge against the men he held responsible for the death of his father, David Pennington

The task force had also tried to tie Aleksandrov Vishenko to David Pennington, again with no success, because there hadn’t been anything to find Except for one otten Whichon him Unless