The Leipzig Affair by Fiona Rintoul

Author:Fiona Rintoul [Rintoul, Fiona]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Adult fiction, Thriller, Political thriller, Espionage thriller
ISBN: 9781906582654
Publisher: Aurora Metro Books
Published: 2014-11-10T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

Whoever is in the next cell lets you know where you are by knocking on the wall. One knock means A, two knocks mean B, three C, and so on. You are in the Stasi remand prison in Berlin. You shudder and wrap your arms around yourself. Like everyone else, you’ve heard stories about this place that is a grey blank on the Berlin street plan.

You knock back: thank you. Then you curl up on the plank bed with the blanket tucked tightly round you, as close to the wall and your new friend as you can get.

A couple of minutes later, the guard pulls the bolt back on your cell door, letting it go with a clang. He orders you to change position. Prisoners must sleep on their backs with their arms outside the blankets.

You lie on your back and stare into the overhead light bulb, letting it hurt your eyes. Impossible to sleep like this. But you must sleep. You’re exhausted from the long drive here in the fish van. Tomorrow or sometime very soon there will be more questions. The guards who strip-searched you when you arrived, took the passport-sized photographs. You’ll be asked about them.

You’re so tired. Your eyes close. Then in the corridor another bolt clangs and you jerk awake.

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