She had to answer that question quickly, before she was sent on a one-way trip to Karachi. He might have been collateral damage in the war between Malyakov and Gringikov for control of the post-Soviet arms trade, but Lee had to determine if Branson still worked for the CIA when he was killed or if he'd sold out and if so, to whom. In Istanbul he was Karl Spiegel, and he worked for Belarusian arms dealer Felix Gringikov. In Dubai he was Gil Brady, and he worked for the Russian merchant of death Sergei Malyakov. He was a CIA officer, but she discovered that he had other identities as well. Lead had already begun to fly before former CIA analyst Lee Carruthers could get to Dubai to investigate the death of George Branson, and each question she asked ratcheted the danger up by a notch. He might have been collateral damage in the war. Would the Pure Warriors of Islam send an assassin all the way to Switzerland to get me Possibly, but it seemed. I killed his killer, but Kemal was still dead. I touched the bloodstained pearl hanging around my neck. In Istanbul he was Karl Spiegel, and he worked for Belarusian arms dealer Felix Gringikov. I had been sent to Morocco to find a missing colleague and wound up fighting my way out of a terrorist camp.
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