Entry Island
“They were somewhere over the Gaspé Peninsula, probably less than an hour from Quebec City. The first hour of their flight had passed in a tense silence, and Blanc had buried his head in Arseneau’s briefing notes on Mayor Richard Briand. Now he looked at Sime, squeezed in beside him in the tiny nineteen-seater Jetstream commuter aircraft, unable to contain himself. ‘Have you read this stuff?’ Sime was miles away, turning over the traces of his ancestor in nineteenth-century Scotland, and if he t...hought about the present at all, picking at the scabs of his failed relationship with Marie-Ange. He glanced at his co-interrogator with a cold detachment. ‘No.’ Excitement coloured Blanc’s normally pale complexion and he flushed pink. ‘Everyone knows you don’t get to be top dog in politics without money behind you. And Briand’s no exception. Even if he is just an island mayor.’ ‘He’s got money. So?’ ‘It’s how he made his money that’s interesting.’ ‘Tell me.’ ‘Lobsters.’ He watched expectantly as Sime absorbed this.MoreLess
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