Nazis in the Metro by Didier Daeninckx

Author:Didier Daeninckx [Daeninckx, Didier]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-61219-297-0
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2014-03-25T04:00:00+00:00

12

WITH HIS TAIL BETWEEN HIS LEGS

When they pushed open the door to the printshop, the worker was finishing his bagged lunch, sitting on the ladder of the hulking press. Ledoeunf steered Gabriel toward a small furnished office in the back, behind the stockpiles of paper. He pulled out a large binder that contained a copy of every edition of the newspaper that had appeared since the beginning of the year, and shuffled through to find the one from the first week of July. He set it down on a ream bearing the Conquéror logo.

—That’s him!

Gabriel leaned over the photo, which was framed with a thick black border and occupied most of the front page below the headline. You could sense the official nature of the posed shot, and how the figure facing the lens, a man of about sixty, was trying to present an image of himself as energetic, responsible. Gabriel read the blocky type that appeared above the portrait:

TRAGIC DISAPPEARANCE OF THE

INDUSTRIALIST EUGÈNE AUDIAT

He skimmed the opening of Ledoeunf’s article, in which all of the titular responsibilities of the President Director General Founder of the Society for Audiat’s Metal Fabricators were enumerated. The important phrase was drowned in an accretion of commonplaces, a festival of fluff:

Monsieur Eugène Audiat never recovered from the murder of his daughter Valérie, on July 4, 1990, five years ago to the day. Those close to him connect that family tragedy with his own fatal act.

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