The Helsinki Pact (59 page)

“Well done. Let’s meet tomorrow
for lunch. We need to discuss details of the account movements,
make sure they’re not traceable.”

“Sure, I took care of that
already. You come down to the fifth floor and I’ll give you the
details. Every time I come up, there’s those damned security
measures in the way.”

“Okay. See you at one. I've got
some material you might also like to see, some amusing pictures -
the originals are safe but I'll bring copies with me. Goodnight
Erwin.”

Stephan put the phone down and
sat for a moment staring out into the night. Camille, tired and
sleepy, was starting to get fractious and was anxious to get
home.

“Who was that?”

“Oh, just a colleague.” he said,
starting the engine. “Tonight there was a closing dinner for a deal
I put together.” As he drove off his mood changed as he thought
back on Herren. He missed him, on both a personal and a
professional level. He was intellectually a notch above anyone he’d
ever met. That he had managed to pull off this deal was all thanks
to the information he’d got from working with Herren and being
taken into his confidence.

Had Herren been doing all this
for the good of the country or did he have his own secret schemes
to make millions from unification as well, Thomas Stephan wondered.
There was no way of telling now but his guess would have been the
latter. One thing he had learned was that you don’t make it to the
top by being a nice guy. Particularly if you're a banker. But then
again Herren was rich enough already not to need it. Maybe he was
just trying to make history. Now he would forever be part of
it.

He glanced at Camille, dozing in
the seat beside him, smiled, then pressed the accelerator and set
off for home.

*** The End ***

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ALEX CUGIA has Italian
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This is Alex Cugia's
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