Uncommon Enemy
“Matthew had listened to Charles’s first oral report without expression, his eyes focussing unrelentingly through his heavy-rimmed spectacles. He said nothing for a while after Charles had finished.
‘You are sure, absolutely sure, that it was him?’ he asked eventually. ‘Despite bowed head, hunched shoulders, intervening rain and glimpsing him for only a few seconds?’ ‘Absolutely sure. And so was Gladiator.’ One of the three phones on Matthew’s desk, the grey one, rang. He waited for it to st...op after the conventional three rings. ‘Tell me again. And tell me more about the café, the junction, the rue d’Astorg and why you chose it.’ Charles had chosen it because it was close to the Champs Elysees, a part of Paris that any foreigner might visit, but off the main routes, slightly withdrawn; not a tourist magnet, but just busy enough for anyone to have wandered into.
Matthew sighed, put his hands in his pockets and leant back in his chair.MoreLess
‘You are sure, absolutely sure, that it was him?’ he asked eventually. ‘Despite bowed head, hunched shoulders, intervening rain and glimpsing him for only a few seconds?’ ‘Absolutely sure. And so was Gladiator.’ One of the three phones on Matthew’s desk, the grey one, rang. He waited for it to st...op after the conventional three rings. ‘Tell me again. And tell me more about the café, the junction, the rue d’Astorg and why you chose it.’ Charles had chosen it because it was close to the Champs Elysees, a part of Paris that any foreigner might visit, but off the main routes, slightly withdrawn; not a tourist magnet, but just busy enough for anyone to have wandered into.
Matthew sighed, put his hands in his pockets and leant back in his chair.MoreLess
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