The Rapture: in the Twinkling of An Eye
“Even if his scheme to intimidate the president of Romania fell apart at some juncture, he was certain nothing could lead back to him or to Nicolae Carpathia.
Fortunato began in a seedy area on the east side of Bucharest, where blue-collar workers and their families were crammed into housing units too small for even half of them. Bars teemed with customers, and hooligans of all ages milled about on street corners. Leon cruised through the district to the unit where his contact lived. As he parked on the crowded street and emerged from his vehicle, Leon recognized the man’s girlfriend marching down the steps, clearly agitated.
“Do me a favor and shoot him,” she said. “Would you?” “Sure thing, Ecaterina,” Leon said. Family, friends, acquaintances, and lovers were always complicators in these matters.
He found Stefan Marin slouched on a sagging couch, nursing a beer.
“What’s her problem?”
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