by Jeff Dawson
‘We will be in touch, Captain Finch.’
She bustled out with the same efficiency with which she had bustled in.
And of course, he knew, it made such perfect sense… That everything was part of some grand design; that Annie, too – fellow fugitive in the Cape, his unwitting accomplice, partner in crime, the woman he’d held a candle for over all these years – should have been ensnared in the same dark machinations as himself.
It explained why Annie, defying all reason, had become Mrs Pointer. It was why she had warned Finch away on their chance encounter in London last year, doing her utmost to keep him at a distance. She had been married off to the shipping magnate at MO3’s behest, a fellow pawn in the Greater Game.
For all the extraordinary things that had happened in the past few days, he had not envisaged that he and Annie might somehow be teamed again. Nor that his mind would now be filled with the face of someone else, whose image he could not shake, no matter how hard he tried. A woman currently somewhere in Montreal.
He sat alone in the empty dining room, drained his glass and signalled to the reappearing waiter for another. Then he lit himself a Navy Cut, leaned back and turned the trusty monogrammed lighter in his hand. He stroked the engraved initials.
Ingo Finch… IF…
About the Author
Jeff Dawson is a journalist and author. He has been a long-standing contributor to The Sunday Times Culture section, writing regular A-list interview-led arts features (interviewees including the likes of Robert De Niro, George Clooney, Dustin Hoffman, Hugh Grant, Angelina Jolie, Jerry Seinfeld and Nicole Kidman). He is also a former US Editor of Empire magazine.
Jeff is the author of three non-fiction books — Tarantino/Quentin Tarantino: The Cinema of Cool, Back Home: England And The 1970 World Cup, which The Times rated “Truly outstanding”, and Dead Reckoning: The Dunedin Star Disaster, the latter nominated for the Mountbatten Maritime Prize.
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First published in the United Kingdom in 2020 by Canelo
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