Cut Throat Dog by Joshua Sobol & Dalya Bilu

Author:Joshua Sobol & Dalya Bilu
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Mystery
ISBN: 9781935554684
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2010-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

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A skinny body like a wet rag, folded in on itself, on the stone quay next to the water churning and rushing under the wooden bridge in Lucerne, and he sends a last look at that head, which made murderous plans and also executed them in vile ways, and reads the place and the time running in little letters at the bottom of the picture, only a moment before that head had turned when they called its name, to make sure there was no mistake in the identity, and the man still had time to send his hand under the flap of his jacket, but the kick of death hit him on the chin, and he rose and fell back with a popping sound, and now he hears the Alsatian’s voice whispering in his heavy French accent, ça va pied-mort, ça suffit, it’s okay, death-foot, it’s enough, and he leans over the man and puts his hand in his pockets and takes out a wallet stuffed with bank notes, and airline tickets, and a silver Lebel 7.65 French pistol, which he makes haste to slip into his black leather bag, and then they push the body over the edge of the quay, and the raging current snatches it up greedily and whirls it round and takes it on a long journey to the depths of the cold winter night, and the Alsatian asks him to give his regards to Lorelei before the waters of the Rhine carry him out into the ocean, and at that moment the Alsatian didn’t know that his body too would be given up to the water of another river, which would carry him to another ocean, two dead men in the tens of thousands of dead in one war which according to his calculation had already been going on for eighty years, ever since they had smashed in the faces of Josef Louisdor and Josef Haim Brenner with a hoe, but all the seas were one sea, and all the dead were one dead, and only the living were distinguished from one another as long as they were alive, each living person and his world closed in on him, and where was this thought leading, he tries to think—

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