As they drove the twenty miles out to the scene where Adolf’s body had been found, Max filled Nathan in on the history that he and Manfred had shared regarding one Adolf Werner. Nathan almost hit the curb at one point.
“Werner? As in, the name Bella heard the man say to Manfred before he stabbed him?”
“Yep,” Max answered bitterly. “After the night we missed him by that much in the graveyard, he went off grid. No clue where he was. His name was on our lists, but never pinged on the radar anywhere. Now I know why.”
He pulled out his cell phone, and continued, “So now I’m gonna call in some favors, and have Adolf Metzger’s background looked into. Maybe we’ll find the transition point where he went from one identity to the other.”
“I agree,” Nathan said. “And maybe it will also lead to how
