Requiem: Chapter 26
Jack Sterlington was now alone. On enemy territory where danger could strike unexpectedly at any moment, this could be both an advantage and a disadvantage. Someone who covered your back was sometimes indispensable, but on the other hand he could be in the line of fire or unconsciously betray your position. It was a knife that cut on both sides.
He had found at the agreed point the well-hidden chest of clothes and documents and changed. The papers included a visa for a period of one month and several passes to access a number of secure government buildings, where he would otherwise be persona non grata.
His identity papers spoke to Josh Graham and said that he was a businessman on a trip and on this trip into this world the pleasant thing about the useful horse.. Josh could immediately list a number of New World landmarks if he was stopped and questioned. He had spent his time on the flight well to learn this and other background data from outside. He had been booked a hotel room at the Oji where Stephen March stayed. That could always be useful to have your potential enemies close to you, without them being aware. He even had a validly stamped plane ticket, he had to be called upon by an accidental check. One had to think in his profession of everything. The documents of his associates he destroyed, a standard procedure for the loss of a member of the attack team. Jack Sterlington, now that Josh Graham thought about his friend Clint and hoped that he could have been saved in time. In addition to his own identity papers, he had received a list of addresses. A shortlist of companies that took care of all kinds of goods from the New to the Old World and vice versa. Josh Graham was a representative of a transport company in New York that researched new contacts. A perfect cover!
It wasn't the first time he was in an undercover operation. Sometimes the circumstances were much less luxurious than this assignment. Sometimes he had to deal with what he found on the spot in nature, with the few possibilities available to him. Sometimes he was set off to make a tricky dictator disappear or a rebel leader who did not fit into the picture of his client's plans. Here in town it was a different kind of battle.
