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ALMOST TWO YEARS EARLIER, THE eighteenth of December, 2015, Ortaffa, France, the day after his flight from New York to Paris, and then a local flight from Paris to Perpignan, France. Jay made his way to a small hotel, several miles north of Château Bernard. The château was owned by the old Frenchman, Georges Piquart, the former French Sûreté agent. For three days, Jay drove the roads in and around Château Bernard, judging time and distance to remote areas in all directions, particularly toward the higher elevations of the Pyrenees to the southwest, on the other side of which were several Spanish highways leading to Zaragoza and then further west to Bilbao. Across the Tech River from the château was a secluded wooded area, accessible by foot, an opportune location, Jay thought, from whi
