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CHAPTER 22

“Honest as the cat when the meat is out of reach.”

English proverb from The Quotable Cat

Richard Queens waited until he heard the commotion die down next door. He put on his most bland expression and went out, locking his door. Under his arm he carried a worn briefcase.

The woman from the plane was coming up the stone stairway as he walked down. She was certainly not the innocent bystander she pretended to be. Equally certainly, she had known Petrovich, the bastard.

His report just now to superiors had not included the woman with the brownish hair and intelligent eyes. Why was that? He pondered the question as he headed out for a normal day’s work—though “normal” was a word that didn’t fit Yemen.

It bloody well didn’t fit this situation.

Richard found that he rather relished the thought of investigating the woman from the plane. He’d have to be on guard, of course.