‘You have to send me in there,’ Sarit told Dovi.
‘Send you in where? You think he’s hanging around waiting to be arrested? He’s got whatever he came for.’
‘Let me go to Holon. I can help the police. Give them a description.’
‘They’ve already got descriptions.’
‘Well, at least let me work with them.’
‘They don’t need you. Look, they now know what he looks like and a big man like that is going to find it very hard to hide.’
‘He’s managed to stay hidden till now.’
‘The Egyptians actually had him and then they let him go when Senator Morris intervened.’
‘And now he’s somehow managed to enter Israel. That makes it personal.’
‘That’s what I’m worried about, Sarit: you making it personal. He’s already survived an attack by you and he knows what you look like.’
‘And by the same token, I know what he looks like.’
‘As long as he’s in Israel it’s in the hands of the General Security Services.’
‘What – that bunch of clowns? If they were doing their job, they’d’ve arrested Goliath as soon as he crossed the border. How did he even get in?’
‘We don’t know that yet.’
‘And what identity is he using?’
‘We don’t know that either.’
‘So let me get this straight. Some guy who’s six foot five tall, who we’re looking out for specifically, enters the country undetected, gives the GSS the slip, kills a prominent Samaritan rabbi and then vanishes without leaving a trail?’
‘He’s evidently a lot smarter than we thought.’
‘And what about the senator?’
‘What about him?’
‘Can’t we get anything from the phone intercepts?’
‘Goliath must have a new phone and we haven’t identified it yet. We’re working on it.’
‘What about the senator?’
‘We can’t monitor him with a US-based intercept ’cause it’s against Federal law.’
‘Do we care? It hasn’t been sanctioned by the PM. If we get caught, there could be a whole lot of fallout.’
‘It’s a matter of life and death!’
‘We have to work within our means.’
‘So how did we monitor Morris until now?’
‘That’s why we need assets like Audrey Milne. When he called Egypt, we could monitor locally from Urim. It seems like Goliath is a whole lot more resourceful than we gave him credit for.’
‘So all the more reason for me to get in on the act. At least I know what he looks like.’
‘But you’re no better placed than the security services to track him down. In fact, rather less so.’