The Matarese Circle (2011)
“The winter seas had been turbulent, the crosscurrents angry and the boat slow; it had taken them nearly seventeen hours to make the trip from Bastia. It would be dark soon, and a small lifeboat would be lowered over the side to take Scofield and Antonia ashore.
Besides getting them to Italy where the hunt for the family of Count Alberto Scozzi would begin, the tediously slow journey served another purpose for Bray. He had the time and the seclusion to learn more about Antonia Gravet—for that un...expectedly was her last name, her father having been a French artillery sergeant stationed in Corsica during the Second World War.
“So you see,” she had told him, the curve of a smile on her lips, “my French lessons were very inexpensive. It was only necessary to anger papa, who was never comfortable with my mother’s Italian.”
Except for those moments when her mind wandered back to Porto Vecchio, a change had come over her. She began to laugh, her brown eyes reflecting the laughter, bright, infectious, at times nearly manic, as if the act of laughing itself were a release she needed.MoreLess
Besides getting them to Italy where the hunt for the family of Count Alberto Scozzi would begin, the tediously slow journey served another purpose for Bray. He had the time and the seclusion to learn more about Antonia Gravet—for that un...expectedly was her last name, her father having been a French artillery sergeant stationed in Corsica during the Second World War.
“So you see,” she had told him, the curve of a smile on her lips, “my French lessons were very inexpensive. It was only necessary to anger papa, who was never comfortable with my mother’s Italian.”
Except for those moments when her mind wandered back to Porto Vecchio, a change had come over her. She began to laugh, her brown eyes reflecting the laughter, bright, infectious, at times nearly manic, as if the act of laughing itself were a release she needed.MoreLess
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