Chapter 27
The minutes turned into hours as the sun began to dip below the horizon, sending its golden rays through the barred windows of the interrogation room. With every passing minute, Richard grew more nervous.
What could possibly be taking them so long? Wasn’t it a standard procedure to return escaped Wehrmacht soldiers to the Russians?
He worried his lower lip, anxious over his destiny. His mind wandered back to Baluty and the man who’d been his superior during that time. Johann Hauser. A good man but filled with a hidden disappointment at life.
Richard had become friendly with him, but had always gotten the impression that Johann carried a dark secret around. Something in his past that haunted him. He wondered what had become of Johann. Had he survived the war? Was he now a Rus
