49. Checkmate!

Francois opens the door and they look at four men with listening devices and bullet proof vests and pistols ready in their hands. The man in the middle shakes his head slowly from side to side and speaks with his heavy American accent in a sarcastic tone of voice: "You don’t come out; so we come in.” He is short and sturdy with short, black hair and resembles a wrestler without a neck with cauliflower ears. He looks at Jack contemptuously. "I see Jack the trigger happy chappy is with you. Relax, Jack, leave that Parabellum or I’ll push it up your ass personally.” Morrison steamrollers his path open and rams through between Francois and Jack. Come, Heinrich, Marco and Alex. Keep the fort at the front door. The lengthy German ducks with his head at the entrance and follows Morrison while the English and the Portuguese guys stay behind and close the front door. Heinrich doesn’t follow them into the sitting room but positions himself with his back against the wall and his hand on his p