Chapter 14
With a bad temper for having been summoned on a Sunday at mid-morning, the members of the Bluthund Community Steering Committee were gradually arriving. Madame Swarowska would not attend because she had traveled to Europe to visit her family and Dr. von Eichenberg, another member of the Bluthund steering committee, had gone to Germany one week before.
"You look haggard." Watkins said to Lakshmi.
“Jack and I couldn't sleep. We come directly from the crime scene.” The woman reproached herself for making it clear that the two were together on Saturday night.
From the door of the building they announced the arrival of Dr. Tarek al Khatib, the specialist in medieval sects from the Middle East, who soon joined the meeting.
Dr. Richardson stood up and opened the session at eleven
