Black Cross

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Greg Iles. Black Cross

GREG ILES. Black Cross

Dedication

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TWO. Oxford University, England, 1944

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FORTY-NINE

Epilogue

Afterword

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Books By Greg Iles

Copyright

About the Publisher

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Betty Thornhill Iles

Every man and woman who sacrificed their lives in the Allied cause.

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Beneath the tartan I found a photograph. It was black-and-white, with contrasts so stark it looked like one of the old Dust Bowl photographs from Life magazine. It showed a young woman from the waist up. She wore a simple cotton dress, her slender body posed rather formally against a background of dark wooden planks. Her shoulder-length hair was blonde and straight, and seemed to glow against the unfinished wood. Her face, though worn by care lines around the mouth, was set off by eyes as dark as the wood behind her. I guessed her age at thirty.

“Who is this?” I asked. “She’s … I don’t know. Not beautiful exactly, but … alive. Is it my grandmother? When she was younger, I mean?”

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