5 THE INTERIMBob was Gareg’s right-hand man, but it meant that he was always busy, which he preferred anyway, since it gave him less free time to mope about Jenny. He had a week to prepare the next operation, which was also for Genaro, but someone had to go to Birmingham, Alabama to sort out Ron’s widow. He was tempted to get someone else to do it, but he wasn’t that sort of person. He could use some of his men, his ‘subcontractors’, as he called them, to take some of the workload off him at home.
The vest for Essen had already been made and the constituent parts were ready to be shipped at a moment’s notice. Richard, the participant, was ready, had done his training and only needed briefing and priming. Gareg, Bob and Genaro had worked out how to achieve their part of the mission, but th
