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“I’m not sure what to make of it, Mr. Caldwell,” Aubrey said. “If your story is correct, why did you run from my colleagues Balon and Roxburgh? And, if you are really worried that Murat Oznatun will harm you, why haven’t you come to the police?”
“Because … Sometimes things that seem simple are more complicated than everyone thinks.”
“Your comment already sounds complicated enough to me, could you say that in a simpler way?” Keith asked.
“Things aren’t always what they seem,” Caldwell said. “You read about an attack, hear that the perpetrators are on the run and that the victim has disappeared from the face of the earth. The question is, what is true?”
“If the journalists in question have done their job well, everything they’ve written is true,” Keith said.
“Unless those journalist
