Robert Ludlum's (TM) the Janson Equation, page 32
“If she goes to trial,” Janson said, “I’ll be first in line to testify.”
“How’s Mi-sook’s infant daughter?”
“Jina says she’s doing great. Her mother’s helping to take care of the baby and Jina’s going through the necessary channels to facilitate an adoption. It should be no problem. Mi-sook consents and Jina and her mom have a luxurious brand-new home in one of the most prestigious areas of Seoul.”
Jessie smiled. “How much did that run you?”
Janson smiled back. “Don’t ask. Next house I blow to pieces, I’m going to make sure the owner has adequate insurance first.”
“Who knows, maybe you won’t have to blow up any more houses in the future.”
“Let’s be realistic, Jessie, shall we?”
Jessie lifted a bottle of FIJI to her lips. “We know the usual suspects in government were behind this. But who do you think was financing Diophantus?”
Janson shook his head. “I don’t know, and I’m not going to dig. If our client Jeremy Beck was involved, I don’t want to know about it.”
“Shall I grab a shovel so you can bury your head in the sand?”
Janson sighed. “I know. I’m a bad man, Jessie.”
“The hell you are, Paul Janson. You are the kindest, most loving, most generous man I’ve ever met. You need to realize that sooner or later.”
Janson heard Heath Manningham’s words in his head.
“Walked away, did you? Tell me. How many have you done since you ‘walked away’?”
Janson would always regret what happened in Daeseong-dong. Although Phoenix had no set place, the foundation was Janson’s home; its graduates were his family. Yet he was ultimately responsible for Heath Manningham’s death. Even though he’d intended for Manningham to survive the fall, he felt as though he’d killed one of his own.
But Janson knew damn well that the things he’d done couldn’t be undone.
He closed his eyes, thinking how much he would have liked for Phoenix to help Sin Bae. But the assassin had vanished into the mist in the DMZ. Had he really, after all this time, gone back to Yodok to find his sister?
Su-ra.
Sadly, Janson was sure that as long as Kim Jong-un was in power, all Sin Bae was likely to find in North Korea was suffering and death.
Janson opened his eyes and glanced at his watch. “It’s almost happy hour, Jessie. You still want to go dancing tonight?”
She bit down on her lower lip. “If only my dance partner hadn’t stayed behind in Seoul.”
“I’d be happy to send the Embraer to pick him up if you’d like.”
She turned to him. “What about you, then? Who are you going to dance with, Paul?”
He shrugged. “I don’t know. Maybe I’ll have to give Kayla a whirl.”
Jessie smiled. “You can be a monster at times, Paul Janson.”
He smiled back at her. “So I’ve been told.”
Acknowledgments
To Henry Morrison and the estate of Robert Ludlum;
To Mitch Hoffman, Lindsey Rose, and everyone at Grand Central Publishing;
To Robin Rue, Beth Miller, and the entire team at Writers House;
To my readers, my wife and children, and my friends;
Thank you.
About the Authors
ROBERT LUDLUM was the author of twenty-seven novels, each one a New York Times bestseller. There are more than 210 million of his books in print, and they have been translated into thirty-two languages. He is the author of The Scarlatti Inheritance, The Chancellor Manuscript, and the Jason Bourne series—The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, and The Bourne Ultimatum—among others. Mr. Ludlum passed away in March 2001. To learn more, you can visit Robert-Ludlum.com.
DOUGLAS CORLEONE is the author of the acclaimed Simon Fisk series of international thrillers, including Good as Gone and Payoff. His debut novel, One Man’s Paradise, was a finalist for the Shamus Award for Best First Novel and won the 2009 Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award. A former New York City criminal defense attorney, Douglas Corleone now lives in Hawaii with his wife and three children. You can visit him online at DouglasCorleone.com.
The Paul Janson Novels
The Janson Directive
The Janson Command (by Paul Garrison)
The Janson Option (by Paul Garrison)
The Jason Bourne Novels
The Bourne Identity
The Bourne Supremacy
The Bourne Ultimatum
The Bourne Legacy
(by Eric Van Lustbader)
The Bourne Betrayal
(by Eric Van Lustbader)
The Bourne Sanction
(by Eric Van Lustbader)
The Bourne Deception
(by Eric Van Lustbader)
The Bourne Objective
(by Eric Van Lustbader)
The Bourne Dominion
(by Eric Van Lustbader)
The Bourne Imperative
(by Eric Van Lustbader)
The Bourne Retribution
(by Eric Van Lustbader)
The Bourne Ascendancy
(by Eric Van Lustbader)
The Covert-One Novels
The Hades Factor (by Gayle Lynds)
The Cassandra Compact
(by Philip Shelby)
The Paris Option (by Gayle Lynds)
The Altman Code (by Gayle Lynds)
The Lazarus Vendetta
(by Patrick Larkin)
The Moscow Vector (by Patrick Larkin)
The Arctic Event (by James Cobb)
The Ares Decision (by Kyle Mills)
The Janus Reprisal
(by Jamie Freveletti)
The Utopia Experiment
(by Kyle Mills)
The Geneva Strategy
(by Jamie Freveletti)
Also by Robert Ludlum
The Scarlatti Inheritance
The Matlock Paper
Trevayne
The Cry of the Halidon
The Rhinemann Exchange
The Road to Gandolfo
The Gemini Contenders
The Chancellor Manuscript
The Holcroft Covenant
The Matarese Circle
The Parsifal Mosaic
The Aquitaine Progression
The Icarus Agenda
The Osterman Weekend
The Road to Omaha
The Scorpio Illusion
The Apocalypse Watch
The Matarese Countdown
The Prometheus Deception
The Sigma Protocol
The Tristan Betrayal
The Ambler Warning
The Bancroft Strategy
Also by Douglas Corleone
One Man’s Paradise
Night on Fire
Last Lawyer Standing
Good as Gone
Payoff
Contents
Cover
Title Page
Welcome
Dedication
Epigraph
PROLOGUE
PART I: The Senator’s SonONE
TWO
THREE
FOUR
FIVE
SIX
SEVEN
EIGHT
NINE
TEN
ELEVEN
TWELVE
THIRTEEN
FOURTEEN
FIFTEEN
SIXTEEN
SEVENTEEN
PART II: “An Intelligence Black Hole”EIGHTEEN
NINETEEN
TWENTY
TWENTY-ONE
TWENTY-TWO
TWENTY-THREE
TWENTY-FOUR
TWENTY-FIVE
TWENTY-SIX
TWENTY-SEVEN
TWENTY-EIGHT
TWENTY-NINE
THIRTY
THIRTY-ONE
THIRTY-TWO
THIRTY-THREE
THIRTY-FOUR
THIRTY-FIVE
THIRTY-SIX
THIRTY-SEVEN
THIRTY-EIGHT
THIRTY-NINE
FORTY
FORTY-ONE
FORTY-TWO
FORTY-THREE
FORTY-FOUR
PART III: On the BrinkFORTY-FIVE
FORTY-SIX
FORTY-SEVEN
FORTY-EIGHT
FORTY-NINE
FIFTY
FIFTY-ONE
FIFTY-TWO
FIFTY-THREE
FIFTY-FOUR
FIFTY-FIVE
FIFTY-SIX
FIFTY-SEVEN
FIFTY-EIGHT
FIFTY-NINE
EPILOGUE
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
The Paul Janson Novels
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