CLOUDS
I tried to approach the case from another direction. It was clear that no one liked the charming Ambassador in the USA. There was a reason the Umansky family ended up in Moscow. And perhaps this, and not teenage love, was the reason Nina Umanskaya was killed.
I kept sketching clouds.
In the first cloud I wrote: “The third person on the bridge, people know about him, but are afraid to name him.”
In another I wrote: “The third person: no one saw him on the bridge, but many know that he was there.”
In the next: “What was he doing there? Was he with them? Or was this someone they meant to meet? “ I crossed it all out. Why did he take away the weapon? If he was the one who pulled the trigger, why did he throw away the Walter, instead of putting it in Volodya’s hand? If he was a witn
