Later, all three supplied with drinks and seated round the table, he filled them in on what he'd found out so far.
"Definitely no reports of any disappearance or suspicious circumstances to the local police. I have a mate in the policía local and he's made discreet enquiries. I went up to Caserones again during the day a few days ago and all is quiet and apparently normal, but I still had that feeling of being watched. It felt like -"He broke off.
"My parents were in Amsterdam during the war, under Nazi occupation, and they said that everything looked normal but the people lived in constant fear - not just of the Nazis, but of their own friends and neighbours. You had to watch what you said all the time, in case someone reported you to the Germans. People only ventured out when they ha
