A Long Time Dead
“The air had been mild – almost spring-like – during the day, but now that darkness had descended, the heavy frost which accompanied it had made that same air as cold and sharp as a knife.
As he walked along the line of trailers, Woodend wondered if it had been as cold as this on the night that Douglas Coutes had attacked Robert Kineally with an iron bar – the night when, but for Birnbaum’s sudden appearance on the scene, the English captain would probably not have walked away until he had made ...sure that his enemy was dead.
He had almost reached Coutes’s trailer. Earlier in the day, there had been two American MPs guarding it from a discreet distance, but now there was no sign of them at all.
Now why was that? Had the wintry conditions made them decide to go temporarily AWOL? Or was it that Special Agent Grant had decided that Coutes no longer posed a flight risk?
Woodend knocked on the trailer door, and Coutes answered the knock almost immediately.
The Minister was wearing a dressing gown of shot-silk, and smoking a long fat cigar.MoreLess
As he walked along the line of trailers, Woodend wondered if it had been as cold as this on the night that Douglas Coutes had attacked Robert Kineally with an iron bar – the night when, but for Birnbaum’s sudden appearance on the scene, the English captain would probably not have walked away until he had made ...sure that his enemy was dead.
He had almost reached Coutes’s trailer. Earlier in the day, there had been two American MPs guarding it from a discreet distance, but now there was no sign of them at all.
Now why was that? Had the wintry conditions made them decide to go temporarily AWOL? Or was it that Special Agent Grant had decided that Coutes no longer posed a flight risk?
Woodend knocked on the trailer door, and Coutes answered the knock almost immediately.
The Minister was wearing a dressing gown of shot-silk, and smoking a long fat cigar.MoreLess
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