The Bear's Tears
“Immediately, his eyes sought, and found, the hired Ford and the fur-coated woman standing beside it. He tapped his cold cheek with his passport, then descended the steps towards a dirty, grey Volkswagen Beetle, its roof-rack displaying skis and ski-sticks.
Manfred Richer, Hyde's cover-name, was going ski-ing at one of the resorts in the Little Carpathians, north of Bratislava. There were at least a dozen other cars displaying skis in the queue to cross the border at Petrzalka, on the main autob...ahn between Vienna and Bratislava.
And yet he fought to calm his breathing - sending up little grey, cold puffs of air like distress signals - as he watched Margaret Massinger climb into the Ford, reverse, turn, and head back towards Vienna. He had no sense of her danger, only of his own. He glared at the retreating Ford, then turned his head to stare balefully at the red and white pole and the grey, urgent river beyond.
And the city beyond the river and the bridge. Inside Czechoslovakia.
You've crossed borders before, he told himself as he massaged his gloved hands slowly together.MoreLess
Manfred Richer, Hyde's cover-name, was going ski-ing at one of the resorts in the Little Carpathians, north of Bratislava. There were at least a dozen other cars displaying skis in the queue to cross the border at Petrzalka, on the main autob...ahn between Vienna and Bratislava.
And yet he fought to calm his breathing - sending up little grey, cold puffs of air like distress signals - as he watched Margaret Massinger climb into the Ford, reverse, turn, and head back towards Vienna. He had no sense of her danger, only of his own. He glared at the retreating Ford, then turned his head to stare balefully at the red and white pole and the grey, urgent river beyond.
And the city beyond the river and the bridge. Inside Czechoslovakia.
You've crossed borders before, he told himself as he massaged his gloved hands slowly together.MoreLess
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