He gave back the key and walked away, out of the neighborhood, toward the water. Toward his place. Rented, with less than a month left on the lease. Waste not, want not. Good timing.
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The room they got had dark green wallpaper and pewter accents all over the place. But the phone worked. Theaella got the duty NSC guy, who undertook to finance their stay through the consulate. Then White came on the line and said, “Matthew went back four years with the Switzerland thing. Then he cross-checked. There were exactly one hundred Americans in Germany that day who had visited Zurich on a prior occasion.”
“Good data,” Theaella said. “But not definitive. He might have used the Cayman Islands. Or Luxembourg. Or Monaco. Or maybe he went to Zurich for a vacation. I did, once, and I sure as hell didn
