Rob spent Friday morning bringing Joe up to speed with his Hamburg trip and the fact that he had only managed to confirm that Magda had disappeared from the flat around the time Kasia had last heard from her. He related what he had been told by the guys he had had the altercation with outside the club and told Joe that he didn’t believe a word of their accusation. Had he elected to go with them in their car, it was obvious their intention was to further discourage him from making enquiries about Magda’s whereabouts. The whole scenario suggested very strongly that Magda’s disappearance was not going to end well if she could not be found. The fact that his assailants had been Eastern European and not German rang alarm bells in view of his experience with his brother and the Bosnians on Achra
