The Last Match (2014)
“You didn’t need papers to get in. So many different national powers shared the administration of the international zone without sharing each other’s police powers that nobody bothered to keep track of the fleet of small craft that ran in and out of the bay without lights on moonless nights. Aboard one of those, you didn’t even have to know your own name.
I went to see Jean-Pierre. He had a new job watering scotch in a bar in Juan-les-Pins. So that he wouldn’t see how pressé I was to leave F...rance in a hurry, I let him think I had dropped in for old time’s sake and a spot of chitchat. When we had compared notes and lied to each other for a while about this and that, I said, “The Boar back in business?”
“The Boar is never out of business. He just switches his bets.”
“What’s he betting on now? Cigarettes again?”
Jean-Pierre’s eyes flickered here and there around the bar before he answered the question.MoreLess
I went to see Jean-Pierre. He had a new job watering scotch in a bar in Juan-les-Pins. So that he wouldn’t see how pressé I was to leave F...rance in a hurry, I let him think I had dropped in for old time’s sake and a spot of chitchat. When we had compared notes and lied to each other for a while about this and that, I said, “The Boar back in business?”
“The Boar is never out of business. He just switches his bets.”
“What’s he betting on now? Cigarettes again?”
Jean-Pierre’s eyes flickered here and there around the bar before he answered the question.MoreLess
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