Condemned

Chapter Two

Chapter Two

Oversight

When Emil A. Brillcart escaped from the massive international manhunt carried out by Europol, he left behind very little to indicate where he might go if such a thing actually happened. As in so many other cases, his flight from justice was assisted to a large degree by other, unrelated events taking place in Europe at the same time. A number of high profile terrorist incidents were making a mockery of the EU’s relaxed immigration policies and bringing governments to the unpleasant conclusion that perhaps socialist and a somewhat egalitarian attitude about the Muslim invasion were not as desirable as the left wing parties would have wished.

These conditions forced the pursuit of the chubby Swiss watchmaker and wanted criminal into the background while police and paramilitary forces responded to the terror attacks with increased security patrols and raids on suspected, or, in some cases, known terrorist hideouts in Germany, France, The Netherlands and Belgium. The timing of these events and the law enforcement response provided a helpful bonus for Brillcart. He quickly vaporized from the scene, but left behind an intact network with responsible and experienced staff to carry on, albeit in a much lower profile, the work he began decades before. The courier network went underground and meshed handily with the highly profitable slave trade. His other enterprises continued to generate massive amounts of Euros that were well laundered through banks that the western European cops had little or no access to.

When things settled down again, as they always do once nations over- react to threats real or imagined, The System pressed onward with strong instructions to terminate some of its most annoying and persistent enemies, Bibi Wolfe Lynx and her partner, Jean Groff among them.

“I realize the apparent futility of pursuing this pair of motherless whores,” Brillcart wrote in a secure text message to Gerhard Heiderschlagen, one of his higher ups. “But they have caused us a great deal of discomfort, not to mention a lot of money and it is time we had a nice, quiet face to face, boob to boob meeting with them.”

Brillcart addressed and copied this explicit message to a dozen of his top staff in several countries and then sent a second follow-up text allocating considerable special funds for the pursuit, capture and delivery of the charming duo that had plagued his operations for nearly a decade.

The System’s wanted list of other petty annoyances to their endeavors included several other government officials and law enforcement personnel, but Brillcart continued to press hard for information that would lead to the capture and or death of Lynx and Groff, who had interrupted or destroyed his criminal operations over the years.

One reason Bibi and Jean were effective in tracking and interrupting Brillcart was that as private detectives for hire, they operated outside the normal parameters of the justice system in most European countries and thus, were not readily accessible to the spies and collaborators The System normally used. When a small lead about Lynx or Groff was channeled back to Brillcart or one of his top people, the information was sparse and always found to be late, incomplete or just plain incorrect. This, of course, enraged Brillcart and made him double the efforts to nail Bibi. Thus, a plan emerged to lure the detective duo once again into the clutches of The System.

“Tell Mister G that I want him to get these two cunts to his next outing,” Brillcart ordered. “I don’t care how he does it, but it needs to be subtle and by-pass the cops as well.”

“Mister G” was a highly influential industrialist in Germany and had connections reaching all the way to Washington D.C.. He had several well paid agents employed by various governments in law enforcement agencies and thus Mr. G knew a great deal more than most of the drones employed by Brillcart and The System. When he got Brillcart’s text, he laughed to himself, knowing that he had already initiated a rather simple plan that would bring the two female detectives right where Brillcart wanted them. And that was how and why Bibi got an official invitation to the otherwise restricted annual ball hosted by one Hermann Gosling.