Chapter One Linz, Austria – 1989 They had risen early, wanting to be away by mid-morning, and had spent the last hour loading up the kit and equipment into the Renault ready for their journey to Mostviertel, to Schloss Osterreich. The previous night had exhausted both of them and at the end of their shared truths they had walked away, zombie-like, to their respective bedrooms, like punch-drunk boxers using the time between rounds to rest. But, despite their exhaustion, neither man had really slept, their minds going over everything that had been said, everything that had been discussed and everything that was to come during the next day. Gorilla hoped that he had said enough. He had felt a change in the younger man over the course of the few hours that he had talked. Could it have been

