That evening Tommy called me with news, he confirmed that Degas was in good shape money wise, that there is no sign of a reason for his crops to be doing poorly and that the deal seemed kosher, I don’t know how Tommy always finds his facts so fast, but he has worked for me for a long time and has not been proved wrong yet. It seems everything is in order the only thing that I don’t like is I don’t get to see the product before purchase. That is usually a rule of mine, to test the product before purchasing it, to assure it is a fine investment, but because it is Ricardo I will trust him, I have worked will him for a long time and I know that his cocaine comes directly from his coco fields is Colombia and Bolivia, so Degas is trust worthy with quality. Now obviously I have to start getting organized. I need to call Ricardo and find out the details for the job, and then I have to start getting a crew together so everything goes smoothly, the last thing I need if for everything to go to shit, and end up in jail over a stupid 120kilograms of yale. I don’t even want to touch the shit; I want to see it once and then never again.
I still need to go see those bloody Carden brothers. I better go see to that before I start getting busy organizing this deal. Otherwise it’s just going to slip my mind, and I will be out of the country again in a few days. I need to call Jeremy on the way and get him to come along for the ride over to the Cardens. I picked Jeremy up at his house in South Kensington and from their drove up to Mada Vale to give the Cardens a visit. Jeremy is a boy I have known for a few years I have had him do a couple of jobs for me before in the past, he is good at scaring the shit out of people, shall we say. These bloody brothers owe me twenty grand, and they seem to be taking a long time coughing up what they owe. And in my business you cannot let things like this sit, it shows weakness, and can encourage people to try and take advantage of you. We arrived at the Carden bothers house at about 8:15pm we were back in the car by 8:30.With eighteen thousand pounds worth of high quality pills in the trunk. So now that is over and done with I drove back to Kensington to drop Jeremy off, and then went back home with the ecstasy. Even though I was two grand short, I need to find a buyer for the pills after I sort out the Ricardo operation. As soon as I walked back into my office, I opened my safe behind my desk and took out 700 pounds, put it in an envelope, wrote Jeremy’s address on the front and left it at the front door to be posted first thing in the morning by my house keeper.
Then I was on the phone to my friend Ahkbar, who runs a business involving the selling stealing and repairing of automobiles. He runs this business from the back of his apartment building. He owns an apartment block in St. John’s Wood, and uses most of the garages behind the building to store his stolen cars, instead of renting the garages to the people up in the building. At night he takes the cars out and has his people working on them through out the night, replacing new plates and such behind the building, he even had two of the bigger garages turned into workshops so that work can be completed for a deadline without anyone seeing during the day. He also owns a kosher auto repair shop where the cars are sometimes taken to get new body paint after being fitted with new plates and are no longer dodgy. Which makes him a very useful person to know in London if you ever want a top of the range car for half of what it usually costs. I told him I needed 10 identical in colour and model vans, and that I needed them in two days, first he told me that this is a lot to ask and he may need more time to find the merchandise, but when I told him I would pay him seven grand for each van he told me he would see what he can do, which really means yes, when you are talking to Ahkbar. He has plenty of runner boys to find the merchandise in two days and get them all colored, I have had harder things for him to find in the past with much less time to spare. It’s not exactly a small operation he is running. By the end of the conversation he assured me that he could defiantly supply me with at least eight of the ten vans, by the time due, and that I would have them by 5:00pm two days from now. Waiting in the back of a parking lot ten minutes away from my house, and that the keys would be delivered to my house address in a package as usual, at an earlier time in the day, he assured me that this would be no later than 3:30pm. I told him I would have the money for the eight/ten vans delivered that day by my driver Fredrick. Now that this is sorted out I have to start getting drivers and a crew together, it is already 10:45 so I may not be able to get the man power together tonight but I defiantly know that Kym would be interested in five grand worth of pills for getting me 10 trustworthy drivers for the job. I will get Tommy to go down there and talk to her personally about it tomorrow afternoon.
There is not s hell of a lot more I can get done tonight concerning this deal, I need to talk to Ricardo again in the morning. I just want to have some dinner and sit in front of the television for a couple of hours.
Today is another day closer to this deal and I sill don’t have everything planned, I still need so sort out a crew, I need to speak to Ricardo, I only have today, tomorrow and then the shipment is coming in. “Tommy you hear yet” I shouted down the stairs as I was getting dressed just after my shower. “ I am in the kitchen getting some breakfast” I could hear him reply. Ten minutes later I was sitting in the kitchen drinking a cup of coffee with Tommy. “I need you to go see that girl Kym today for me.” I said “ I need you to take one grand in pills with you and tell her you will give her five grand worth if she can find 10 drivers to help me with this deal. Don’t give her any details as of yet except that the drivers will be required to drive to Wales, just let her know the boys she supplies cant be idiots, she will know what you mean, if she excepts give her the pills you have with you and tell her she will get the rest of the payment after the drivers have done their job.” “Sounds simple enough, I will do that, be back soon” and with that Tommy finished his cup of coffee and walked out. I sat for a while longer smoking a cigarette and finishing my cup of coffee, and then retreated to my office to call Ricardo, His nephew Carlos answered his mobile, Carlos is employed by Ricardo, he is in charge of Ricardo’s security, he is also used as muscle for Degas, if someone is giving Ricardo a bad name, Carlos is the one sent to clear it all up. I have known Carlos since he first started working for his uncle, and one thing is for sure, this is one of the sickest evil bastards you will ever meet. “Carlos how are you, it’s Marcus, is Ricardo there?” “Marcus, how are you, Ricardo is eating lunch right now, I will get him to return the call, but he did mention he needs to see you about business” “Ok tell you what Carlos, tell your uncle to come over to my house, when he has finished I need to discuss something with him.” “ Of course Amigo, see you soon.”
Knowing Ricardo, it will be a while before he arrives, I need to call Ahkbar and see how he is getting along with my order. Make sure everything is running smoothly. “Ahkbar my friend, how is my order going?” “Good, my boys have already found three of what you asked for and they are all the same colour, white, which makes it easier, I don’t have to spray them. And it is still early only 11:12am.” “Great sounds good, speak to you soon” Ok Ahkbar is doing well.
After hanging up the phone to Ahkbar I started to plan out how all this is going to work. I must do deals bigger than this at least every few months with out fail with some type of narcotic, but just because this is a smaller deal, it does not mean it’s a smaller risk. What I usually do in instances like this, when the product is coming in by ship from Degas is get four choppers and send them out into the ocean with a pilot and two guards on each one to meet the ship before it even enters European waters, my pilots then land on the ship and one of the guards from each chopper will meet with Ricardo’s men and exchange the product and the money, or course this only applies with Ricardo because everyone on his ship are under his pay role. As an extra precaution I have a fifth helicopter follow the first four, which remains airborne above the ship with one pilot and a gunman with a rocket launcher, which I bought of a Russian several years ago, when I used to do a little bit of weapon distribution. Just to make sure everything goes to plan. But this time I have to try a new approach because a few weeks ago I heard from my friend Chief Inspector Turkic, who informed me that Narcotics are starting to get suspicious and starting to catch on to my strategy. Which is why I am planning to use the vans. After about another half an hour, I had a good idea of how I was going to get the shipment from Ricardo in Wales and bring it back to me, but I still needed to talk to Ricardo.
Ricardo arrived at my house just after I finished lunch; I had my housekeeper escort him to the drawing room and told her to make Degas a drink. I joined him a few moments later and we started to discuss the planning for the operation. After talking for a little over an hour, we had a very good idea of how everything was going to work, we were just discussing minor details when Tommy called me on my mobile, “Marcus sorry it took so long, but I am standing with Kym now, and she excepts your offer, but before she could do that obviously she had to make sure she could gather the man power you requested, so it took a while. I met the nine guys in the process; she tells me she will be the tenth.” “ Sounds good, Tell Kym and her friends to come back with you to the house. I want to meet them.” “You got it Marcus, see you shortly.” I finished off my conversation with Degas and everything was clear. We spoke for a while longer and then I walked him to the door, where his nephew waited for him in Ricardo’s Bentley.
Not to long after that Tommy walked into my office informing me that Kym was waiting with her boys in the living room. I have known Kym for many years, she knows everyone in this city and everyone knows her. I have employed her on several pickups of this kind in the past. She is a trusted accomplice, well as trusted as an accomplice can get. “Kym, my darling how are you” “Marcus! I have missed you, you have not been in London for a while.” “ I know and I am leaving again soon, straight after this operation is finished.” “ I am sorry to hear that. Anyway let me introduce you to your drivers. They have all worked with me for a long time, and are all experienced and fit for the job.” Said Kym “Is that correct my friends? I hope it is. Any of these boys started acting up I would take it very personally, find them and have them fed to the pigs. But I would be holding you responsible if for some reason I could not find them Kym.” “Don’t worry Marcus I would find them in an hour.” “Anyway as long as this is all clear, would any of you like a drink?” I sat and spoke with Kym for a while discussing the plan and how everything was going to work, on her side, and then we just relaxed and had a chat about our personal life for a while. By 8:30 everyone had left except for Tommy who I sat up with for several hours more drinking scotch and going through all the details for tomorrow and the deal in two days time.
I had a shit night’s sleep, I think it is because it is getting close to the deal date, and everything is still not sorted. I still need my vans wish are supposed to be here at 5:00pm. I had a nice long hot shower, and put on a gray suit. I was in the kitchen having breakfast by 10:45am when I finished I gave Tommy a call, he told me he was just pulling in to my driveway, so I waited a minute and he walked into the kitchen. Made himself a cup of coffee and sat down. At 11:30 we were in the car with Fredrick on our way up to St. John’s Wood to check up on our order. Ahkbar looked happy to see us, which means that everything is probably going well. “How are you my friend,” he screamed as I got out of the car with Tommy. “Everything is going good, very good. I already have 10 vans and they are already in the shop getting sprayed except for the last one, which is still getting the plates changed. They will all be delivered to their destination on time as planned. I had my boys working two days straight for you Marcus, only for you my friend. Only for you.” “I am very pleased with your progress Ahkbar, I will give you a little extra on top for your hard work. I will send Fredrick over with the money this evening. Anyway Ahkbar I have to be on my way, I will see you shortly I am sure.” “Marcus I almost forgot, you can take the keys for the vehicles now, I have them in the workshop, wait here a minute.” “Thank you Ahkbar, have a good day, good doing business with you.”
Now that that is all sorted out I can send Tommy round later to check that the cars are in the car park while Fredrick goes to Ahkbar’s to pay him the cash. He did a good job. But first I need to swing round to see Mouse. Mouse is a guy I know every well. He is very stupid and very strong, but he is a dear friend I have known since I started this business and he is always looking for some extra dough, he is a trust worthy guy and I am sure he would like to help me with this deal. Tommy waited in the car while I went up to his apartment and rang on the doorbell. I had to wait for a while but eventually he opened the door and invited me in. We sat and talked for a while before I asked him whether or not he would like to be included in the transaction as for I had not seen the big guy in a while and didn’t want him to think that was the only reason I came to see him. Of course he agreed when I put fourth my offer, and within an hour I was in the elevator going down to the car, where I met Tommy and Fredrick and went back home.
Now was the first time in the last three days that I had any time to relax, so I gave my sister a call, to see how she was doing, I had not seen her in a while so I ended up going over to her house for a late lunch. My sister Tyra does not really know what I do for a living she knows I am rich and she knows I cant be 100% legit but she thinks that the companies I own is what brings in my main revenue instead of being a cover for my main revenue. So most of what I tell her has to be lies. Tyra is a good girl she would not understand if I tried to explain my work to her. But I love her with all of my heart and try to see her as often as I can when I am in London. She is a great cook and has a beautiful baby boy who just turned two. After spending the rest of the day at her house in Hammersmith I started the drive home in the early evening at about 5:30. I gave Tommy a call and asked him to drive down to the car park where Ahkbar was dropping off the cars, I told him to tell Fredrick to take the envelope I left on my desk and take it Ahkbar if the ten identical vans were there. I told him to call me if there were missing.
When I got home I called Kym and told her to meet me here tomorrow at 3:00pm with all of her boys. Then I gave Mouse a call and told him to meet me at the same time. Tommy got back to the house at about 6:30, he told me that the vans where in their places and looking good, and that Ahkbar was taken care of. The only two things left to do was to get the cash to pay Ricardo with, and buy some weapons. Tommy had already got a ticket for the 9:00pm flight to Zurich, so he was scheduled to leave for the airport within the hour. He was going to go get the needed cash from Alarick my accountant and be back tomorrow before 2:00pm with the dough. And when Tommy leaves I was planning to go see Boris about some weapons. He is the only guy in London that can provide such things as Spaz Shotguns, MP5 machine guns and other useful supplies.
I sat with Tommy and had a glass of white wine while he waited till it was time to make a move to the airport. I left at the same time as him to go see Boris, how lives in Battersea, I arrived their at about 8:00pm it took me about an thirty minutes to choose all of what I thought would be appropriate for the assignment. I bought three MP5 machineguns and ten Desert Eagle .50 handguns as well of plenty of extra ammunition. I then thanked Boris and went back home to have some dinner and go to sleep. Boris is a strange character, it is said that he was shot 6 times in the chest and didn’t die; it is supposed to be impossible to kill the guy. The man also has horrible scars all over his face like he was tortured or something, I try not to get to involved with the bizarre bastard.
Today is the day that everything is going to come together, its about 10:30 now so I have just over twelve hours to make sure everything is perfect. I had a quick shower and got dressed. I put on a dark red suit with a black shirt and shoes and went down to the kitchen smoked a cigarette and drunk my coffee. When I was finished I went into my office and called my house in the countryside, just outside of London, I told my housekeeper there Karol to get my chopper cleaned, fueled and ready to go by my engineer/driver Camitri. And make sure he is ready to go when I arrive there at 7:15pm tonight. Now all there is to do was wait, wait until Tommy arrives back from Zurich.
At 2:30pm Tommy walked in the door, he came into my office with two large leather briefcases containing £420000. The exact amount requested from Degas. He sat down and I handed him one of the MP5 machine guns and two extra rounds of ammunition. I then went and put the money in my walk in safe in the basement for safe keeping, and from their Tommy and I went and sat in the bar room, and poured ourselves a few drinks. Waiting for Mouse, and Kym’s crew to arrive.
Kym arrived perfectly on time with her nine drivers. My housekeeper got them all a drink while Tommy handed out the van keys. After everyone had settled down I gave them each a handgun and one extra round of ammunition, except for Kym, who I gave two extra rounds. I have known that girl to kill five times as many people as everyone else when the bullets start flying. After giving everyone their weapons I gave them the location address to pick up the vans. Now the only thing we were waiting for was Mouse. And he arrived very shortly. I gave him one of the MP5’s and took the other one for myself as well as a few extra clips of bullets. Not we were ready to go. I told Mouse and Kym to both go in the same van. And everyone else to go in their own. I also told them that under the front seat of each van there would be directions to a particular spot in Wales where they are to park and wait for me to call them on their walky-talky. All of these positions will be near to the drop of point. It should take about two minutes after I call them to get to the destination where the shipment is coming in. I also told them that the only van that is to be holding the cargo is Kym and Mouse’s van. All the other vans are purely there for decoys so they go onto the ship and come back off it with nothing Kym and Mouse are the only ones that are supposed to be coming off that boat with the cargo. I also warned them that everyone on that boat would work for Degas, so they will be the ones that will unload the cargo from the ship into the van, and that when they are done loading it up two of Ricardo’s men will get into the back of the van to accompany the van to its destination, one of which will be his nephew Carlos who will most defiantly be armed. When I finished giving them my instructions all of them left taking one of the walky-talkies on their way out. And again I was left with Tommy. We had one more drink for good luck and then got into the limousine while Fredrick got the money from the safe in the basement. We then all left for the countryside.
We arrived at my house in the country at 7:00pm so Camitri was still working on the chopper out back. So I took this extra time and went and got my housekeeper Karol to make Tommy and I something to eat. At about 7:30 Camitri was finished with the helicopter and came inside to greet me. After we finished eating, I went down into the wine room in the basement, where in a small room at the back I keep some old weapons; I took out a Spaz Shotgun and a few rounds of ammunition and went back upstairs. I gave it to Camitri and went over the plan with him.
The shipment was coming in at 11:00pm so after talking with Camitri and going over all the minor details I still had some spare time to before I was due to leave. So I played a few games of snooker with Tommy and Fredrick to pass the time. I turned on my walky-talkie at 10:55pm and told the units to prepare to move towards the ship, and told Kym to tell me when she has picked up the cargo. We were not dew to leave the house until 11:30pm allowing the vans time to travel to the meeting point just outside of Wales, where I am supposed to meet Degas to pay him for the yale at 12:15am. I waited in silence for a while, “Everything is cool, I have got the package.” Said Kym. At 11:06pm I took a deep sign, told all the units to start moving to the next location. I waited in silence and anticipation until it was time to make a move.
“Time to go Marcus it’s 11:25, lets go outside to the chopper.” Tommy said calmly. I picked up my MP5, and went outside to the chopper where Camitri waited with the engine running, Tommy and I got into the chopper and put on out earplugs, and Camitri then took us up and on our way to meet Ricardo.
As we came close to our destination I called the vans to check up on their arrival time, vans seven of the vans were dew to arrive any second at the destination and the other three a minute later. We landed in the middle of a huge field where we were supposed to meet Degas, a couple of seconds after landing I could see the first of the vans arriving, within two minutes I could see most of them. The ten vans parked in a circle around the helicopter, and everyone got out of their vehicles and walked towards Kym’s van. She got out of the van with a smile on her face, and opened the door for Carlos and the other guy with him, almost instantaneously Degas and his entourage arrived at the scene, with in a black limousine and three black Beamers. All of Ricardo’s men got out of the cars, Ricardo with a smile from ear to ear, “ Another success hey Marcus” Ricardo also had to get his share of the cocaine of the ship, his half is probably already being sold on. “ It is looking that way my friend” “Where is the money Marcus?” “Camitri, give Mr. Degas his money.” Camitri passed Carlos the two briefcases. “Happy Ricardo?” “As always my friend you show to be a fine businessman, not a snake like some people I have worked with.” “Ricardo I must be on my way, I have a lot of yale that London is waiting for in that van” Ricardo let out a deep fat laugh and replied “See you soon Amigo, like next month, a much bigger operation I am planning, you give me a call huh.” “Of course by friend business as usual. See you soon” and with that Degas got into his limo, and drove off, with his entourage following. I then got Kym’s boys to quickly load up the chopper with the coke and I told them they could keep nine of the vans and all the guns. I paid Kym the rest of her pills, for a job well done. Told Camitri I would see him back at the house in the morning, and to unload the coke with Fredrick when you arrive home and to put it into the celler for tonight. In fifteen minutes everyone had dispersed except for Tommy and I. Who after everyone left got into the last van and drove back to my house in the countryside just outside London, we had to fill up on gas a few times but we arrived back at the manor at 7:45am I went inside and spoke to Camitri, to make sure everything went well when he got back, I then went down to the celler to check up on my purchase and test it’s potency. I had already arranged for a Scotsman to come and pay me a visit about buying twelve thousand pounds worth of high quality ecstasy before I leave for Thailand at 3:45 this afternoon.
