Book 4, Heimdallr
Chapter 18BURTON CRANE HAD PICKED up the trail of Birger Wallenberg with help of an old friend in Rome. After a boat trip to Albania, the earth had swallowed the Swedish scholar. Registered for a Psychiatry Congress in Florence, his traveling schedule made no sense. To try and learn anything of his whereabouts from outside Albania would be a waste of time.
Without Sidney holding his hand, authorized status was out of the question. The British Foreign Office had expressed its irritation, and this was apparently seconded by their colleagues at Foggy Bottom back home.
Passing himself off as a New York Times reporter with a press card to prove it, Crane arrived at Durres on the ferry from Greece as Mr. Douglas Cole with no other luggage than his hand valise. To look carefr
