The Oath by Klaus-Peter Wolf

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

*

It felt good to eavesdrop on Ann Kathrin Klaasen and Ubbo Heide in Café Philippe. Ubbo sympathised with him after all. It was music to his ears.

And the tip from Ann Kathrin wasn’t so bad. Maybe, he thought, I could scare that scumbag so much that he’ll run to the police and confess. That’d be a victory! He smirked. Maybe you have some more good tips in store for me, Ann Kathrin!

He laughed. In the end it’d be like with that secret tax CD. Although there are complaints that it’s not right for the state to purchase data stolen from a Swiss bank, masses of goddamn tax dodgers hand themselves in, become remorseful and pay for fear of discovery. But they don’t even know if their names are on the CD. If we put the fear of God into these people, then they’ll all confess, take the lesser of two evils, and save their pitiful lives by begging for mercy.

I can already picture you on the front line with me. You, Ann Kathrin and me – what a team we’d be!

*

Rupert was standing in the queue at the supermarket when his phone rang. He had a case of beer and a bottle of whisky in his trolley – everything that a man like Rupert would need when giving up smoking.

Manni, his old buddy, who he loved to prop up the bar with in the Mittelhaus pub, kicked him when the phone rang.

Rupert briefly looked over at Manni, and then answered.

Agneta murmured in his ear with a husky voice. ‘Hey, my stallion, how’re you doing?’

Rupert was afraid that the other people in the queue would hear Agneta’s voice and he coughed to cover the sound.

‘Oh, I hope you haven’t caught a cold. I thought I’d kept you warm enough.’

Rupert kept on coughing.

‘I hope you’ll come again tonight. I’m an expert in a couple of things you’re not familiar with and I’d like to pamper you a little.’

Rupert tried to find a neutral tone. ‘I’m working on a homicide right now. We’re all under a lot of pressure. I can’t make it tonight.’

‘Didn’t you like my shashlik?’

Rupert didn’t know what’d been hotter, the shashlik or Agneta. But it’d be impossible to say that now.

‘Didn’t you like it?’ she probed.

‘Well, of course! But I—’

‘I think I’m in danger! You told me that he could come and get me next! I thought you’d protect me?’

‘I can try to get police protection for you, but I don’t know if—’

‘I don’t want any of your deputies! I want you! Don’t you care at all that you’re putting me at the mercy of the killer? My husband’s away on business, he’d protect me otherwise. But—’

‘Well, as I said, I’m hot on the heels of the murderer here. We’re really close to catching him and—’

By now, Rupert had the attention of everyone in the queue and the cashier had even stopped scanning goods and was staring at him.

Manni pointed to Rupert and chimed in. ‘That’s my friend, Rupert! Basically the boss of the police in East Frisia.

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