Sleep didn’t come easily to Darren. The hotel bed was comfortable and, yes, he missed Alana but it was more than that. He couldn’t stop thinking about the Paletti Notebook, the warnings and cautions offered by Leitner and Moser about its authenticity, and numerous places and times logged into Fra Nizza’s journal. Of course, he also imagined the threats that they were facing and regretted Bao Chinh’s murder as if he, Priest, was somehow responsible.
Aggie joined him in the hotel restaurant for breakfast and they decided that their effort on this day should be to piece together Nizza’s journal, translate all or most of it while farming out the passages that Priest wasn’t comfortable translating, and arrange the journal almost like a travelogue.
“We can find someone here who speaks Italian,
