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DG Sandman - Session 4 Summary |
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Written by Arkat
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Thursday, 23 October 2008 |
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From the notes of Senior Special Agent Steve Anderson, 0120 hrs, Dec 21, Cairo, Egypt
It’s quiet here in the early hours, the sound of the hotel’s air conditioning, a metallic hum in the background. The flight from D.C. to Cairo was long and uncomfortable, mainly due to the studied silence of Special Agent Chance sitting next to me. Things went okay with A, at least enough that she left alive. That old man has a way of scaring the heck out of people – not your average geezer. Really, we’re breaking the rules – we’re not meant to know each other, just code names but that careful craft went out with Fairfield. Nowadays, it’s just whatever we can get, which means I may as well bring in Pierce. Landsdell and Chang were already in the clubhouse if not the gang but whatever, it looks like Fox rides again – woohoo, wave a small flag of liberty - *sigh*. So we came to Cairo to speak to some experts. Trouble is, one was murdered before we got here. Not sandblasted this time – just your basic torture and execution. Pierce, Chang and Martikian met with Colonel Faroud and Sergeant Khalid, the military cops running Professor Marks’s murder investigation. Looks like they were killed by 2 white guys with no faces (or at least it looks that way on the CCTV tape), possibly of South African origin. A advised that some business people connected with neo-Nazis were in the states a few years ago looking for artifacts from the Nitocris period. They were working through a front company known as New World Industries but disappeared without a trace once the FBI started to sniff around. I think we might have seen them or their associates on an evening visit to the well fortified Mosque of Ibn Tulun. Karen..sorry, Francesca, had an ‘event’ – migraine, nosebleed etc in close proximity to an elderly woman with a no neck bodyguard. They got away from us in a black Humvee. So, for Dr Atwan – as far as we know, he is fine but under close guard in the centre of Ibn Tulun. A thinks of him as a friendly but he’s allegedly no muslim. Rather a practitioner of an older faith in keeping with the region – Ra, Isis – the old gods. Then there’s Marks’s crime scene and his body to look at. Apparently he had a number of rare books in his office – Unaussprechlichen Kulten in German by Von Junzt, The Witch Cult in Western Europe by Margaret Murray and Liber Ivonis translated by Johann Negus in Latin. Barring Murray, the rest of these are an occult book collector’s dream find – apparently, Von Junzt alone has a market value of several hundred thousand dollars, prime motive for a murder perhaps but torture? Someone had something personal against Marks or he knew something they needed badly – I mean the guy gave up an eye for crissakes. I had a feeling coming here was not going to be fun and games and already I got that sinking feeling. The Hajj ends in 23 hours – I think our killer will be loose again after that. The pieces of the puzzle are on the table – time to put them together.
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