Winter Work by Dan Fesperman
Author:Dan Fesperman [Fesperman, Dan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2022-07-12T00:00:00+00:00
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Half an hour later Emil pulled to the curb of a busy street in Schöneberg. He still felt shaky, and his toes were still numb with cold. He had taken several detours along the way, to make sure he wasnât followed. But he hadnât yet decided exactly how much to tell Dorn. Play it by ear, he supposed.
He stepped into a yellow booth and punched in the number for the duty officer at the Bernau police station. A gruff voice answered.
âPatch me through to Lieutenant Dornâs home, please.â
âNo need. Heâs up in his office.â
It wasnât yet nine oâclock on a Saturday morning. Emil sighed and waited for the detective to answer.
âDorn here.â
âItâs Grimm. Iâve been to see Andreas Plotz this morning. The news isnât good.â
âNo luck on IDâing the film?â
âHeâs dead. Trussed up and carved to a bloody mess in his bathroom. Someone had tied him to a chair.â
There was a sharp intake of breath, followed by a pause filled with the crackling that still haunted all East-West phone connections.
âThatâs remarkable.â
âRemarkable?â
âI was just looking through the Boyan Barkov police file, the one from Leipzig. They faxed it overnight and, well, your descriptionâ¦â
Emil nearly tripped himself up by saying something that wouldâve showed he knew all about the similarity of the two murders. Instead he said, âYes?â
âIt sounds exactly the same. Horrible, but the same.â
âSo then itâs the same person?â
âIt certainly sounds that way. The killer in Leipzig was Yuri Volkov, a bit of muscle the Russians had hired. But the fellow who cleaned it all up in cooperation with Dieter Krauss had a few stripes on his collar. A KGB colonel.â
âName?â
âI was just reaching that part. His signature is all over the forms. Here we goâ¦Gregor Kolkachev.â
Emil knew the name, and even remembered the face. A tough KGB insider, midforties by now, a big man who had managed to survive the shakeups and purges that had seemed to emanate every few years from Moscow. He was the district chief for counterintelligence, which meant heâd have a keen interest in either saving or destroying the HVAâs agent files and other sensitive documents.
âKolkachev. I see.â
âDo you know him?â
âThe name is vaguely familiar, but I can check with people whoâd know, if youâd like.â
âYes, that would be helpful.â
âAnd of course now Iâll need to find someone other than Plotz to tell me more about these strips of microfilm.â
âMaybe it would be better if you just returned them to me.â
âNo, no. I have a few solid leads Iâm already pursuing.â
âBut, Grimm, I cannot possiblyââ
âIâve already set the wheels in motion, Lieutenant. Too many people are now aware of a police interest in this matter for me to not show them anything. Oh, and for obvious reasons it will be better for both of us if youâre the one who reports this Plotz killing. Itâs in a Plattenbau in Marzahn. Iâll give you the address. I touched nothing.â
âMe? But youâre there! I donât even know the supervisor for that district. Andââ
âIâm in Schöneberg now.
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