The Fire Pit by Chris Ould

Author:Chris Ould [Ould, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Titan
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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BY AND LARGE, HENTZE WAS NOT A HAPPY TRAVELLER. HE didn’t mind being somewhere different when he finally got there, but he found nothing exciting or glamorous in the actual process of travelling. So he endured the flight out of Vágar, hemmed in next to the window, and at Kastrup he had the small consolation of towing his single carry-on bag through baggage reclaim without having to wait for anything else. Even so it was gone eight o’clock by the time he’d caught a train and made the short trip to Copenhagen central station, emerging into damp air and setting off briskly to walk the fairly short distance to his hotel.

Apart from the mayonnaise-dropping sandwich, he’d eaten nothing all day and now he was hungry so he intended to check in, leave his bag and then find somewhere to eat before doing anything else. However when he caught the aroma from a red-and-white hotdog stand on Reventlowsgade his stomach made it clear that it wouldn’t wait for that long and, lacking the will to defy it, Hentze gave in. He parked his bag and ordered the largest sausage on offer, then ate beside the stall, burning his mouth as the price of his weakness. It was a good hotdog, though.

Finally, with his hunger satisfied, at least for the moment, he felt rather more in control and remembered that he still hadn’t called Jan Reyná about his record search. It would probably wait, but seeing a bar just over the road and rather fancying a beer after the salty hotdog he took out his phone.

“Hey. I was just calling to see where you were,” he said when Reyná answered. “I’m in Copenhagen now, standing across the street from a bar on Reventlowsgade near the railway station. If you like I could meet you inside.”

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