At least he’d had reasonable success tracing Nico Rodriguez’s movements in the months before the murders. As well as his stints in Egypt, Oman and the watering holes of Morocco and Monaco, he had come in and out of London three times in that period, under the guise of delivering trade samples of some kind of industrial plastic. Darbishire suspected that almost certainly, he was smuggling small quantities of drugs or arms, or working out how to do it. When in London, he stayed at the Marlborough, which wasn’t a bad hotel, even if it wasn’t quite the Dorchester. He won big on the horses and
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