Dark Voyage by Alan Furst

Author:Alan Furst
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3, epub
Tags: Historical, Contemporary, C429, Suspense, Extratorrents, Kat, war, Thriller
ISBN: 9781588364241
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Published: 2002-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

He remembered her well enough, a Russian maritime journalist who wrote for Na Vakhte, On Watch, a shipping newspaper published in Odessa, as well as for Ogonyok, the illustrated weekly, sometimes for Pravda, and occasionally for the European communist dailies. This was not conventionally a job for a woman, and Bromen was young, in her thirties, but she was, it turned out, determined and serious and knowledgeable about the shipping trade. DeHaan, too well aware of the Comintern—the agency in charge of subversion in the seamen’s unions, probably would not have met with her, but she’d found some way to get at Terhouven and he’d asked DeHaan to go ahead with it. “Tell her Hyperion is an enlightened employer,” he’d said. “We don’t ignore the welfare of our crews.” DeHaan had done his best. And, formal and rigorous at first, she’d relaxed as the interview proceeded, was, he realized, simply intent on doing her job, and not at all the Soviet sourpuss he’d expected. In the end, DeHaan was honest with her and, though he never saw the article, Terhouven had, and declared it “not so bad.”

DeHaan looked up from the letter and saw the rust-streaked hull of his ship, looming above the launch. Hallowes, he thought, the Germans at the Reina Cristina bar, his conversations with Hoek and Yacoub, now this. Why don’t you all go to hell and let me sail the seas.

The launch sounded two blasts on its horn and, eventually, the Noordendam’s gangway was lowered a few feet, froze, was taken back up, then lowered again.

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