The Last Mission

John Washington III, Marcus, Dutch, and a pregnant Claire travel to London to investigate Harbison and Grey, the merchant bank holding Meridian transfer records. Posing as Bank of England auditors, John and Marcus photograph ledgers in the basement room and find money moving from New York through London to Zurich, Liechtenstein, and Panama, marked as council assessments. A seating chart shows fourteen chairs, with B at the head and titles including President, Prime Minister, and Chancellor. The alarm is raised, the team escapes, and a caller threatens Claire and her unborn baby by name. Claire's carefully sourced press story triggers a run on the bank's confidence, and Nigel Harbison is soon found dead. As the money accelerates to new accounts, former shooter Ray Calloway reappears to warn that the planned Berlin incident is a trap meant to draw John in. In Berlin, John lets British officer Major Harcourt stop the market-square bomb through official channels instead. Following bearer bonds through Liechtenstein to Paris, the team identifies the council chairman as Antoine Beaumont, President of France, and obtains council minutes recording Dallas as approved. Beaumont then invites John to meet him in Paris, alone. Book 9 of The Authorization series by John Washington III.