Night Falls on Norway by CW Browning

Author:CW Browning
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: WW2 Espionage Thrillers, Female Spy WW2, Spy Thrillers in WW2, Second World War Thrillers, WW2 Thrillers, Espionage Suspense books, Strong Female Spy
Publisher: CW Browning
Published: 2020-08-03T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

Oslo, Norway

8am

Eisenjager glanced up at the apartment building before him and moved out of the way as the door swung open and a man rushed out, carrying a suitcase in either hand. His hat was askew on his head and he looked startled to see someone standing on the pavement outside the building. After a quick glance, he turned and hurried up the street. Eisenjager watched him go, wondering if the man had a plan or if he was simply fleeing with no clear idea of where he was going to go. His lips twisted faintly. He would be better off staying put in his apartment. The Germans would be here soon and then life would continue as normally as possible. Unless, of course, the man was a Jew. If that were the case, the faster he fled the better for him.

Turning back to the building, Eisenjager walked up to the door and went inside. He had gone to the boarding house where Jian was staying, only to discover that she had fled in the night ahead of the invasion. Hardly surprising when the guns at the battery on the fjord had begun firing at four in the morning. The advance warning had come earlier than any of them had expected, and as a result his pigeon had flown the coop. It couldn’t be helped, of course. All he could do now was try to determine in which direction she had gone, and then follow. And to do that, he had to begin with the woman she had been having dinner with last night at the Hotel Bistro.

Going over to the mailboxes on the lobby wall, he searched for the woman’s name. Salvesen. There it was. She was on the third floor. He turned and started towards the stairs. She worked at the British embassy, but he thought it very unlikely that she would have gone to work this morning. After all, the city was under siege, or very soon would be. Going to work would be the last thing on her mind.

He climbed the stairs, looking up as a couple came clamoring down from the second floor. They carried suitcases, and he moved to the side as they ran by. The man nodded to him, and Eisenjager nodded back pleasantly, turning to watch as they continued down the stairs to the ground floor. Another couple running from the advancing Germans. The streets were clogged with them, people trying to get out of the city and away from the invading troops they knew were coming. What they didn’t realize was that there was nowhere to go. Norway was being overrun and the borders secured. There was no way out.

Reaching the third floor, he turned and moved along the corridor until he reached the door with a little nameplate next to it that read Salvesen. Lifting his hand, he knocked loudly and waited, listening. There was no sound from the other side of the heavy wooden door and he frowned, lifting his hand to bang again.

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