The French Executioner by C.C. Humphreys

Author:C.C. Humphreys [Humphreys, C.C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781409138549
Publisher: Orion
Published: 2011-09-29T06:00:00+00:00

Cibo gazed down into the water.

‘After them!’ he said, and when none of his men moved, he screamed, ‘Obey me, fools!’

The guards looked at each other, looked away, looked anywhere to avoid their master’s raging eyes.

‘Very well,’ he said, softly now. ‘Then bring me Gianluca.’

The wounded guard, the first who had come through the door, was dropped at Cibo’s feet.

‘We need a marker.’ The velvet voice was quiet, reasonable. ‘We have to know where they come up. You’re volunteered.’

He reached down and, with a strength surprising in an older man, tipped the soldier into the water.

A flailing arm waved from the foam as if in farewell and was gone.

‘Search the river banks, all the secret pools. And remember this: I want them alive!’

With that, the Archbishop of Siena returned to the centre of his ruined kaleidoscope. He reached under von Solingen and, eyes averted, plucked the hand from the centre of the scattered sand pentangle. Dropping it into the velvet bag, he threw it onto the altar, then gazed at the gibbering monks, his growling mistress and his groaning bodyguard writhing among the shards of broken glass.

‘Oh yes,’ Giancarlo Cibo said to no one in particular, ‘I want them very much alive.’

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