Skördeman, Gustaf - Geiger by Skördeman Gustaf

Author:Skördeman, Gustaf [Skördeman, Gustaf]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bonnier Publishing Fiction
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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It was really the middle of the night, but dawn had already begun to illuminate the flat. Agneta had hoped to surprise him, and had been prepared for strong resistance.

But all she had encountered was an abandoned home.

He had lived here.

Ober.

Above a branch of the state-owned off-licence sandwiched between a petrol station and a Thai restaurant, in an unassuming one-bed flat. With fine views towards the water.

Out there on the water was where the small yellow car ferries ran their constant shuttle between Vaxholm and the surrounding islands. Right now all was calm. The sea was tranquil, but Agneta assumed that the waves rolled forcefully into the harbour during autumn storms.

This place was in the archipelago, even though it was on the mainland. She could really see why people wanted to live here. In the past, she’d merely considered Vaxholm to be a long way out of town. They had views of the water back home in Bromma, too. But this place had a different feeling to it – a different sense of calm.

Agneta had been prepared to climb up onto the balcony and get in that way, but the lock on the door had turned out to be easy to prise open. Holding the pistol in one hand, she’d slowly opened the door. Ready for an attack.

But nothing had happened.

And when she went inside, she encountered echoing silence. Given the unfortunate spread of news about Stellan’s death, Ober had probably fled and hidden at a secure address. The alternative was that he had gone to meet Abu Rasil, and that everything was already underway.

Agneta hoped that wasn’t the case.

Now she was standing here, feeling astonished by how commonplace daily life as a spy could be. She went through the fridge and larder. Yoghurt and coffee cream. Goat’s cheese. Lots of cereal and muesli.

Then the bathroom. Medication for stomach ulcers and denture cleaning fluid in the bathroom cabinet. A bath towel with Sunwing package holiday branding and the date 1991, and a small red towel hanging on a hook beneath a sticker with the word ‘bottom’ written on it. In the bedroom there was a neatly made bed with a burgundy throw spread across it. Being a single bed, it indicated that all hope of one day sharing his existence with someone had evaporated.

In the living room she found the remote controls for the TV and VCR lying on a crocheted white cloth spread across the coffee table. There was a two-seater sofa and an armchair in matching drab brown upholstery. He had allowed for guests in his plans, at least. There was a bookcase filled with crime fiction, biographies and books about animals and nature.

Agneta searched the flat yet again for anything that might be linked to Geiger and the spy ring. There were no hidden compartments or hollows behind the tiling – or so it seemed. But Ober had left a box wrapped in a black bin liner beneath the floor of the cupboard under the kitchen sink, and inside that she found an aged radio transmitter.

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