The Three Most Wanted
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When we’d joined Jon, Bane went straight to the phone and typed in the number from the code card, then the phone number he’d retrieved from his old omniSIM. He put it onto speaker setting so we could all hear, but it rang and rang and rang. Luciano might not have his phone on him, might have it on silent whilst he went about his bloody work. We’d have to try again later…
“Si?” A woman’s voice.
“Uh, who is that?” asked Bane in Esperanto.
“Who’s that?” snapped the voice in the same language. “And why are you calling this phone?”
“Carla,” Jon mouthed at Bane, who nodded.
“Carla?”
“Who is it?” she asked more warily.
“Bane.”
A long silence. “What the hell do you want?”
“We want to speak to Luciano.”
“You can’t.”
“Oh, come on, is he there?”
“No, she means can’t, not won’t let you,” said a male voice—Carla had the phone on speaker too.
“Francesco? Why not?”
Silence from the phone, then Carla spoke in a hard, tight voice.
“He’s dead.”
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