CHAPTER 21
Suddenly there was a glitch.
The phone call from Claude Rainier had been like a kick in the head. It caused Eric Weissenstein to drop everything, including the Shearer matter. He left for Appenzell immediately, his farm in the mountains. Technical problems he did not need. Not at this stage.
He kept in touch with Rainier as his car wound its way from St. Gallen and up to the village of Appenzell. The sun had disappeared behind the mountains as he reached the farmhouse with its collection of outbuildings. All hidden behind a copse of age-old pines and a high perimeter wall that encircled the property.
The other reason he’d readily broken off everything to go out to the farmhouse, though, was Gail.
The first time she had come to his bed was like a dream coming true. Until tha
