Assignment - Karachi
“Donegan had no news of Jane. No one had seen her. Military patrols were scouring the city for her. But Karachi had a population of over two million. There were the wharf areas, the sprawling native slums, the new building projects, the hotels on Victoria Road. She had been reported walking on Kutchery Road, near the Palace Hotel; she was seen having tea at the Shezan; she had gone by taxi to the Karachi Gymkhana Club on Khuro Road. All the leads were false. The sprawling city had swallowed her ...up. The latest lead was that she was with some tourists visiting Quaid-i-Azam’s tomb of Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan. There was no other word.
Durell hung up and shook hands with Alessa von Buhlen as Sarah introduced them. It was five o’clock. A servant in a white frock coat wheeled in a rubber-tired cart with bottles of liquor, tonic, glasses, fresh lemons and limes. He chose bourbon. Alessa asked for bourbon, too.
“You are our American escort,”MoreLess
Durell hung up and shook hands with Alessa von Buhlen as Sarah introduced them. It was five o’clock. A servant in a white frock coat wheeled in a rubber-tired cart with bottles of liquor, tonic, glasses, fresh lemons and limes. He chose bourbon. Alessa asked for bourbon, too.
“You are our American escort,”MoreLess
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