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Friday (May the following year)
10:23
Dannaks saw Uwe snatch up the handset in the
middle of the second ring. His colleague's
expression was enough to stop him emptying his
desk drawer.
He surveyed the open plan office. More than
half the desks were unoccupied. One of the men
got up, opened his desk drawer and clipped his
holster containing his Heckler and Koch P 2000 to
his waist-belt before slinging on his jacket and
leaving the room. That left only three others. One
was on the phone; the other two were staring into
computer monitors. Nobody appeared to have
noticed them.
Even as he scrawled something on a piece of
scrap paper Uwe's expression did not ease. He
suddenly jerked the receiver from his ear and
stared at it as if he could see the person at the
other end of the line. Dannaks's questioning look
met blankness. His colleague tentatively returned
handset to his ear.
Dannaks could see that he was still puzzling as
he replaced the handset.
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