"Dibdin, Michael - Aurelio Zen 02 - Vendetta UC - part 10" - читать интересную книгу автора (Dibdin Michael)

'You won't be needing it any more. I'll keep it as a
souvenir.'
He stood up and took his coat off, draping it over a chair,
then walked over to the bar and rapped on the chrome
surface with his knuckles.
'Eh, service!'
The proprietor emerged from the back room, scowling
furiously.
'Give me a glass of beer. Something decent, not any of
your local crap.'
Shorn of his coat, the man's extreme thinness was even
more apparent. It gave him a disturbing two-dimensional
appearance, as though when he turned sideways he might
disappear altogether.
The proprietor banged a bottle and a glass down on the
counter.
'3,ooo lire.'
The thin man threw a banknote down negligently.
'There's five. Have a drink on me. Maybe it'll cheer you
up.'
He carried the bottle and glass back to the table ang
proceeded to pour the beer as carefully as he had lit the
cigar, tilting the glass and the bottle towards each other so
that only a slight head formed.
'Miserable fuckers, these Sardinians,' he commented to
Zen. 'Forgive me if I don't shake hands. Someone once
told me that it's bad luck, and I certainly don't need any
more of that. Strange, though, you not remembering my
face. Maybe the name means something. Vasco Spadola.'
Time passed, a lot perhaps, or a little. The thin man sat
and smoked and sipped his beer until Zen finally found
his voice.
'How did you know where I was?'
It was a stupid question. But perhaps all questions were
stupid at this point.
Spadola picked up his overcoat, patted the pockets and
pulled out the previous day's edition of La Nazione, which
he tossed on the table.
'I read about it in the paper.'
Zen turned the newspaper round. Half-way down the
page was a photograph of himself he barely recognized. It
must have been taken years ago, dug out of the news-
paper's morgue. He thought he looked callow and cock-
sure, ridiculously self-important. Beneath the photograph
was an article headed NEW EVIDENCE IN BUROLO
AFFAIR?' Zen skimmed the text.
'According to sources close to the family of Renato
Favelloni, accused of plotting the murders at the Villa
Burolo, dramatic new evidence has recently come to
light in this case resulting in the re-opening of a line of