Another bit from my LifeDrive, an excerpt from December Heat by Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza:
"We can't spend the rest of the day running up and down the beach. If our suspicion that he's going to do something tonight is correct, he'll be plotting something against one of us or against Kika. And I don't think he's going to try anything before ten at night."
"Why ten?"
"Because, based on his previous behavior, we are acting on a somewhat fantastic hypothesis: our suspect likes constructing scenes. We must therefore allow that it is plausible that he is going to build some sort of grand finale today, precisely, Christmas night. So far, nothing has contradicted our hypothesis. According to that logic, we must conclude that if he's going to try anything, he's going to try it at night, at dinnertime, at the Meridien."
"Goddamn."
"Goddamn what?"
"You talk so well."
"I'm being serious, Vieira."
"So am I. I think the way you talk is fucking amazing."
[pgs. 259- 260]
[translated by Benjamin Moser; Copyright © 2002 by Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza; Translation copyright © 2003 by Henry Holt & Company; Originally published in Brazil in 1998 under the title Archados e perdidos by Companina das Letras, Sào Paulo]
His Inspector Espinosa series is wonderful. He does something different in every book. One book had the story going backwards!
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