Chapter Ten
Werner’s Way
When the Swiss, Austrian and German police broke up The System’s network of courier robbers, they failed to realize that the young women who were coerced and trained to attack and rob street couriers were but the tip of the European slave trade iceberg. Because of this naiveté and general ignorance, there was no follow-up by any civil authority to look into the rest of Emil Brillcart’s enterprises. And so, the fat little watchmaker, who always had fabulous exhibits at the Annual Swiss Watch Show in Basel, went on doing what he had done for decades: arranging for the kidnapping and sale of the same quality of young women as he had specified for the courier network operations: intelligent, cosmopolitan, proficient in at least two languages, aware and accustomed to
