maybe I never understood what was going on in his head. I beg your pardon. May I see another stone? One thing I do understand for certain... ...is that Vitaly broke the cardinal rule of gunrunning. Never pick up a gun and join the customers. What are you doing? Something for Yuri. Step away. Slow. No, Vit! No! Vit! Only half the guns were gone... so I was still entitled to half the diamonds. If I took them, I was lost. If I left them, I was lost. The massacre played out exactly how Vitaly predicted. But then, a half-dozen other massacres happened in Sierra Leone that week. You can't stop them all. In my experience, you can't stop any of them. They say evil prevails when good men fail to act. What they ought to say is, evil prevails. I now shared even more in common... with the leader of that country God seemed to have forsaken. We saw something in each other that neither of us liked. Or maybe we were just looking in the mirror. I paid a Monrovian doctor twenty dollars to remove the lead from Vitaly's body and write a bogus death certificate. I should've paid more. I've smuggled millions of rounds of ammunition, and the bullet that lands me in jail... is found under my dead brother's rib. Yuri Orlov. We're with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. Let me guess. This is not about the alcohol or the tobacco. Crimean Restaurant. Papa? Both my sons are dead. There are only two tragedies in life. One is not getting what you want. The other is getting it. Is this one of yours? Jack Valentine finally had what he wanted. Curiously, the death certificate says he died of heart failure. Falsifying a death certificate? That's not gonna hold me. You're right. As usual, you are right. Have you seen today's paper? Huh? Fake end-user certificates. Cut-out companies, meticulously catalogued. There is hardly a warlord, dictator, despot anywhere in the world that you're a first-name basis with. It was your wife your trophy wife that led us to the prize. It's not her fault. She's just easier to follow than you are. May I? Yeah, go ahead. Enjoy it. What? This. Tell me I'm everything you despise. That I'm the personification of evil. What? Responsible for the breakdown of the fabric of society and world order. I'm a one-man genocide. Say everything you want to say to me now. Because you don't have long. Are you paying attention? Or are you delusional? You have broken every arms embargo written. There is enough here to put you away for consecutive life sentences. You are going to spend the next ten years of your life going from a cell to a courtroom before you even start serving your time. I don't think you fully appreciate the seriousness... ...of your situation. My family has disowned me. My wife and son have left me. My brother's dead. Trust me. I fully appreciate the seriousness of my situation. But I promise you, I won't spend a single second in a courtroom. You are delusional. I like you, Jack. Well, maybe not, but I understand you. Let me tell you what's gonna happen. This way, you can prepare yourself. Okay. Soon there's going to be a knock on that door and you will be called outside. In the hall there will be a man who outranks you. First, he'll compliment you on the fine job you've done that you're making the world a safer place that you're to receive a commendation and a promotion. And then he'll tell you that I am to be released. You're gonna protest. You'll probably threaten to resign. But in the end, I will be released. The reason I'll be released is the same reason you think... I'll be convicted. I do rub shoulders with some of the most vile, sadistic men calling themselves leaders today. But some of those men are the enemies of your enemies. And while the biggest arms dealer in the world is your boss... ...the President of the United States, who ships more merchandise in a day I ------------------------------ Читайте также: - текст Гарфилд на английском - текст Распутник на английском - текст Майами Блюз на английском - текст Осенний марафон на английском - текст Там, на неведомых дорожках... на английском |