eh?’
‘She’s good. She managed to work out the connection between Light and Durrant a long time before we did.’
‘I remember you said. OK, good, bring her on board.’
‘And I thought I’d try to take a closer look at the card. Get it blown up, you know. There’s tremendous detail on there, the drawing’s so intricate. Seems quite different in that sense to the previous card. And that emblem...’
‘Yes, I know. How were you going to do that?’
‘At the moment, nothing too epic. I’ll just scan it in, download it to an iPad, see what kind of detail I can make out when enlarging various sections.’
‘You can do that on an iPad?’
‘Maybe when you leave the police you can join the twenty-first century, sir.’
‘You can do that on an iPad?’ repeated Jericho, drily.
‘Yes. Not sure if it’ll give us the resolution we need, but I’ll see what happens. If not, I can speak to someone in Taunton, take it down there.’
‘Be careful with that.’
‘I will.’
‘OK, good. Enough about the damn card. What about this climbing expedition? Beginning to feel like this is what we should be aiming at, rather than minutely investigating his round-the-world holiday of the past few months.’
‘Yep, coming to the same conclusion, sir.’
As always, Haynes glanced down at his notes, and as usual he didn’t really need to. Better to refresh, however, better to keep the habit.
‘So the centre of all this is Geyerson. He arranged, planned, and funded the expedition. Made his money on Wall Street. He kind of lives in the shadows, I mean, he’s never on TV as a financial expert or whatever, so people don’t really know him, but there’s tons of stuff online about him if you look. There are a couple of profiles on him in Forbes, Time, things like that.’
‘And?’
‘Sounds like a bit of a dick.’
Jericho smiled ruefully.
‘Carter’s dad said he and his kid had argued.’
‘He’s got Wolf of Wall Street written all over him.’
Jericho shook his head.
‘No, not your kind of thing, sir. The only trouble with this guy is, he never had his comeuppance.’
‘I don’t suppose, by any chance, he’s currently climbing in the Mendips?’
Haynes laughed. Jericho was actually joking. He must be de-mob happy, he thought.
‘Or the Quantocks?’
‘High Atlas, I’m afraid.’
‘Morocco?’
‘Yep. Not climbing as such, apparently, just walking in the mountains, doing whatever. He has this assistant who’s been with him for twenty years or something. Emerick. Goes with him everywhere. He was on Kangchenjunga, and he’s with him in Morocco.’
‘And what do we know about Emerick?’
Haynes shrugged.
‘Maybe he’s a long-suffering assistant only too happy to talk to us,’ said Jericho, ‘or perhaps as well as being his assistant, he’s his gimp.’
Haynes smiled.
‘Geyerson has been married four times but never appears to take his wives with him when he travels.’
‘Is he currently married?’
‘No.’
‘So, we’re including Emerick as one of the five on Kangchenjunga?’
‘Yes, we are. The other two are Harrow and Connolly. They all appeared to have gone their separate ways after the climb, which is reasonable. Why wouldn’t they? Harrow, I haven’t been able to locate. Connolly moved around, then came home to the UK for a couple of weeks. He left two days ago, saying he had a climb to pick up on the Eiger. Went to Grindelwald. His family haven’t heard from him since he left. They didn’t know where he was staying.’
‘All right, I guess we need to find those two guys. I’ll take Harrow, you stick with Connolly. Grindelwald... how many hotels are there? Can’t be too many, stuck on the side of a mountain.’
‘Grindelwald is all hotels, sir. There are like a million.’
Jericho smiled, although there was an edge behind the look that hadn’t been there earlier. He indicated for Haynes to leave, then looked at his computer, which he had yet to turn on that
‘She’s good. She managed to work out the connection between Light and Durrant a long time before we did.’
‘I remember you said. OK, good, bring her on board.’
‘And I thought I’d try to take a closer look at the card. Get it blown up, you know. There’s tremendous detail on there, the drawing’s so intricate. Seems quite different in that sense to the previous card. And that emblem...’
‘Yes, I know. How were you going to do that?’
‘At the moment, nothing too epic. I’ll just scan it in, download it to an iPad, see what kind of detail I can make out when enlarging various sections.’
‘You can do that on an iPad?’
‘Maybe when you leave the police you can join the twenty-first century, sir.’
‘You can do that on an iPad?’ repeated Jericho, drily.
‘Yes. Not sure if it’ll give us the resolution we need, but I’ll see what happens. If not, I can speak to someone in Taunton, take it down there.’
‘Be careful with that.’
‘I will.’
‘OK, good. Enough about the damn card. What about this climbing expedition? Beginning to feel like this is what we should be aiming at, rather than minutely investigating his round-the-world holiday of the past few months.’
‘Yep, coming to the same conclusion, sir.’
As always, Haynes glanced down at his notes, and as usual he didn’t really need to. Better to refresh, however, better to keep the habit.
‘So the centre of all this is Geyerson. He arranged, planned, and funded the expedition. Made his money on Wall Street. He kind of lives in the shadows, I mean, he’s never on TV as a financial expert or whatever, so people don’t really know him, but there’s tons of stuff online about him if you look. There are a couple of profiles on him in Forbes, Time, things like that.’
‘And?’
‘Sounds like a bit of a dick.’
Jericho smiled ruefully.
‘Carter’s dad said he and his kid had argued.’
‘He’s got Wolf of Wall Street written all over him.’
Jericho shook his head.
‘No, not your kind of thing, sir. The only trouble with this guy is, he never had his comeuppance.’
‘I don’t suppose, by any chance, he’s currently climbing in the Mendips?’
Haynes laughed. Jericho was actually joking. He must be de-mob happy, he thought.
‘Or the Quantocks?’
‘High Atlas, I’m afraid.’
‘Morocco?’
‘Yep. Not climbing as such, apparently, just walking in the mountains, doing whatever. He has this assistant who’s been with him for twenty years or something. Emerick. Goes with him everywhere. He was on Kangchenjunga, and he’s with him in Morocco.’
‘And what do we know about Emerick?’
Haynes shrugged.
‘Maybe he’s a long-suffering assistant only too happy to talk to us,’ said Jericho, ‘or perhaps as well as being his assistant, he’s his gimp.’
Haynes smiled.
‘Geyerson has been married four times but never appears to take his wives with him when he travels.’
‘Is he currently married?’
‘No.’
‘So, we’re including Emerick as one of the five on Kangchenjunga?’
‘Yes, we are. The other two are Harrow and Connolly. They all appeared to have gone their separate ways after the climb, which is reasonable. Why wouldn’t they? Harrow, I haven’t been able to locate. Connolly moved around, then came home to the UK for a couple of weeks. He left two days ago, saying he had a climb to pick up on the Eiger. Went to Grindelwald. His family haven’t heard from him since he left. They didn’t know where he was staying.’
‘All right, I guess we need to find those two guys. I’ll take Harrow, you stick with Connolly. Grindelwald... how many hotels are there? Can’t be too many, stuck on the side of a mountain.’
‘Grindelwald is all hotels, sir. There are like a million.’
Jericho smiled, although there was an edge behind the look that hadn’t been there earlier. He indicated for Haynes to leave, then looked at his computer, which he had yet to turn on that
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