The Witness Tree by Brendan Howley & John Loftus

Author:Brendan Howley & John Loftus [Howley, Brendan & Loftus, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Thrillers, Fiction, Suspense, General
ISBN: 9780307369604
Google: 7vL3HH4oNK8C
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Goodreads: 11915530
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Published: 2007-10-09T00:00:00+00:00

XXVIII

Astalemate while they took one another in, almost five years’ silence between them. “I should start calling you Farmer Misha,” Adela Braudel declared, not moving. “The beard, the clothes, all a bit rustic, especially the smell.”

He fingered the valves on his horn. “I was in the barn. Playing.” In the laneway, the cart horses clipped away into the distance.

“You’ve been playing, all right. Idiot: those two are all over the papers. The Soviet embassy has lodged a formal complaint against the American police, the mayor … they’re turning New York upside down looking for the killers. What were you thinking? Reuven is ready to write you off, you know that? And after all he’s done for you. You know what he once said to me? ‘Della, he’s worth it. If we had twenty Mishas, we’d have a country.’ Some hero you turned out to be. You know where I’ve been the past two weeks?”

“I have no idea,” Misha allowed.

“In and out of the Rothschild Palais in Vienna. Trying to ransom Jews out of there. From the Gestapo. All very correct, all very sickening. You should see their eyes.”

“You’ve changed.”

“Unfortunately, you haven’t. I need to move—I’ve been sitting for hours. Make some tea, please, will you?” And she strode away, her blunt black hair thrown back by the wind, her umbrella dead vertical. Misha watched her from the kitchen while he waited for the kettle on the gas ring, floating through the deep sea of dying grass, very beautiful, smoking and examining the forest trees in the rain.

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