Velvet Chains
For the road.
Cho's throat tightened. Who? The one man in this whole business who never made a mistake. He took another drink, and his mouth twisted. We called him the Chemist, in the old days, though never to his face. He is a surgeon. A man of the most exquisite precision. He has handled every awkward matter the Hargroves ever had for thirty years, and he has never once been seen.
The microphone crackled softly in Cho's collar.
His name, she said quietly. Lyle, Whitlock said. He swallowed and blinked, as though something had caught in his throat. Ambrose Lyle. Mount Sinai. Quiet. Pleasant. Rather deaf in the left ear. You would never look at him twice.