Anna Nowak poured large measures of vodka and then handed a drink to Case before sitting down in the sofa.
‘Amazing work, Dr Nowak. Really amazing. Real action woman stuff,’ he said. ‘How did you learn martial arts?’
‘Another time,’ she said. ‘The past is another country.’
She raised her glass. ‘Na zdrowia.’
‘Na zdrowia,’ said Case.
Anna tapped the dining room window.
‘It’s certainly livening up around here, these days,’ she said.
‘Do you know who that thug was,’ said Case.
‘I’ve no idea. I didn’t recognise him. Did you?’
‘There was a little twinge of familiarity but nothing concrete, to be honest. I wonder what he was up to.’
‘Well, no one knows exactly but some of my former co-workers have their theories,’ said Anna Nowak.
‘Such as?’ said Case.
‘Well, Marek Malinowski was a w
