The Dedman Emergence (A Jacob Dedman Novel Book 1) by Larry Darter

Author:Larry Darter [Darter, Larry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fedora Press
Published: 2024-03-05T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 32

The train sped north across the Austrian border without the complications of border police boarding to check passports. Dedman’s hopes that he and Drita would finally arrive in Berlin in the afternoon without getting detained or something worse happening soared. That is until the train slowed and stopped at the station in Matrei am Brenner, Austria to discharge and take on passengers before continuing north to Innsbruck and over the German border.

When Dedman scanned the station platform beyond the windows on the other side of the car, he tensed when he saw three people standing on the platform waiting to board the train, two males and one female, wearing the uniforms of the Bundespolizei, the German federal police. The Bundespolizei carried out a wide variety of law enforcement tasks, among them border protection and railway security.

Dedman knew the procedure. The German federal police officers would board and check passports during the approximately seventeen minutes it would take the train to travel from Matrei am Brenner to Innsbruck. That way, they could detain anyone without the proper travel documents to enter Germany, remove them from the train, and turn them over to Austrian authorities in Innsbruck before the train crossed the German border. Given the number of passengers on the train and the relatively short period the officers had to perform passport checks, Dedman could only hope they focused their attention on ferreting out illegal migrants. He glanced at Drita and saw she had also spotted the police officers.

Dedman leaned over and whispered to her as the doors of the train opened. “Remember, when they approach us, just hold up your passport so they can see the cover. Hopefully, they will just continue past us. They don’t have a lot of time to check the entire train before we get to Innsbruck.”

“Okay,” Drita whispered back, digging into her purse for her passport.

Dedman took his U.S. passport out of his backpack and held it in his hands. The three German police officers boarded the first car, two cars ahead of the one he and Drita occupied. Dedman couldn’t see them once they boarded, but knew as the train left the station, they would begin working the length of the train from front to back.

Only a few minutes passed before the three police officers entered their car and began checking passports. Dedman and Drita sat in the third row on the left side.

The officer in the lead stopped and looked at the two passengers, a man and a woman, both flashing friendly smiles and holding their passports aloft before he had even said “passports, please.” He noted the cover of the male’s blue passport, and recognized the man was an American and then glanced at women’s burgundy passport embossed with “Republic of Albania.” Clearly these two weren’t illegal migrants, the focus of the checks he and his colleagues were making. Probably partners on holiday. Nothing aroused his suspicions, so he didn’t reach for the passports to give them further inspection. Instead, he nodded and continued to the passengers in the next row.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.