Chapter 13 · free to read
He had spent forty years refusing every hand held out to him. He wanted me to take this one before I had even read it.
I followed the polite man's car for forty minutes across a drowning city, and told myself I only wanted to know where he ate.
One photograph of a minister's man shaking hands with the enemy. And one flash I had forgotten to switch off. Across forty feet of wet market, Zaid Malbari turned his head and looked straight at the crate I was behind.
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