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Grünau, Namibia, the present dayNick checked into a B&B called the Withuis, white house in English, outside of the small town of Grünau.
He stayed in the eponymous building, an old farmhouse on a larger working farm. It had been built in 1912, but walking on the creaking wooden floorboards, running a finger along the cast-iron wood-burning stove and looking out over the wide empty spaces of Namibia, he wondered if this was the paradise that Claire Martin had envisaged when she’d reinvented herself from German spy to respectable landowner and doctor’s wife.
Nick settled into a leather armchair, and while he waited for dinner, which the owners had arranged to deliver to him at seven, he used the house’s wifi to search for more information about Scott Dillon, real-estate mog
