“Even when the sun is shining and the air is warm, there is nothing whatsoever positive about laying a cold body in the cold earth, particularly someone with three bullet holes that cut her life short by at least four decades. And in Wisbach there was no sun, no warmth. The rain was coming down in sheets and buckets as Shaw and Katie sat in the car at the graveyard that was set next to a small church.They’d flown into Frankfurt that morning and driven over. Going through airport security in Dubl...in the alarms had sounded when Shaw had stepped through the metal detector. The wand the security guard ran over him homed in on his left arm.“Roll up your sleeve, sir,” the guard had ordered, an edge to his voice.When his gaze hit the row of metal staples revealed under the bandage, he flinched.“Damn, does that hurt?”“Only when I roll up my sleeve,” Shaw answered.At the gravesite the rain had turned the mound of fresh earth next to the six-foot-deep hole into a mud pile. Anna’s coffin and the people here paying their respects were under a large tent set up next to the gravesite to keep them reasonably dry.Shaw had decided not to join the mourners.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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