Thomas grunted approval. The grilling with arcane questions proceeded throughout late morning and after a lunch break into the afternoon. He questioned them about passages, cafés with backdoors, the department stores along Boulevard Haussmann. He wanted to impress upon them they should see Paris, not as the City of Light, but coldly, as an urban battleground with their own duel of wits with Target soon to begin.
CHAPTER 33INQUIRY AT THE OFFENBACH
The next morning Pablo boarded the Line 2 for a westward journey of several minutes within the 18th arrondissement . He would check into a grubby little hotel for several days to get a feel for its clientele. And as the metro rattled along, he couldn’t help but notice the irony: The 18th, once home to Van Gogh, a painter who celebrated life, mi
