I am reading Kingdom of Shadows by Alan Furst, a great espionage story set in 1938-39 Europe and everyone is very nervous about what's going on in Germany. Towards the end I come across this passage and it's so great I just have to share.
Tried this with my kids at dinner the other day and it failed completely. Different times.
Anyway, Nicholas Morath goes to Vienna to try and get this guy out. He takes ten large with him in cash in case they are just thieves, but when he gets there he decides on another course of action. He checks into the same hotel our poor violinist is being held in, sneaks down to the kitchen in the middle of the night and sets the place on fire and taking advantage of the ensuing chaos, spirits the hapless Kolovitsky away.
Seems kind of extreme to burn down the whole hotel to rescue just one guy, but you know, fuck around and find out.
Off topic, but have been following the change of Magnetic North Pole?
ReplyDeleteIt seems it has been going the other direction toward Siberia since the start of the month. Weird, since it has been going south east since 1831 when we hoomans discovered it's location back then.
I'm expecting a pole shift myself. Lots of interesting thing going to happen soon. End of Days stuff.
What's your view?
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/world-magnetic-model-out-cycle-release
This guy seems sketchy but anyway,
https://thesecondnews.com/alert-only-2-months-left-heads-up-magnetic-pole-shift/