The Obedient Assassin: a Novel
“asked Caridad. “Will she help you?”
“Perhaps. Perhaps not. It’s difficult to tell.”
“Why not? She liked you well enough.”
“But that means nothing to a woman like her. She used me as a toy.”
“What does she say about Trotsky?” asked Eitingon.
“She had a long letter from him. Something happened in Mexico but she won’t talk about it. Whenever I mention him, she changes the subject.”
They were in Eitingon’s flat. Caridad looked ashen after making countless telephone calls and... smoking countless cigarettes. Catalonia had fallen—Tarragona, Barcelona, Girona. It would be only a matter of weeks before Franco’s troops took Madrid. Half a million Spanish refugees were pouring over the border into France.
Ramón believed that Lena would be safe. Her father had kept his distance from the Left and maintained alliances with Franco’s machine in Barcelona.MoreLess
“Perhaps. Perhaps not. It’s difficult to tell.”
“Why not? She liked you well enough.”
“But that means nothing to a woman like her. She used me as a toy.”
“What does she say about Trotsky?” asked Eitingon.
“She had a long letter from him. Something happened in Mexico but she won’t talk about it. Whenever I mention him, she changes the subject.”
They were in Eitingon’s flat. Caridad looked ashen after making countless telephone calls and... smoking countless cigarettes. Catalonia had fallen—Tarragona, Barcelona, Girona. It would be only a matter of weeks before Franco’s troops took Madrid. Half a million Spanish refugees were pouring over the border into France.
Ramón believed that Lena would be safe. Her father had kept his distance from the Left and maintained alliances with Franco’s machine in Barcelona.MoreLess
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