Copyright Lisa Marie Rice, 2003. All Rights Reserved, Ellora's Cave Publishing, Inc.
Bari, Italy
"Subjunctive mood," the young English teacher, Mark Harrington, said.
Captain Franco Rivera stirred uneasily in his seat and wondered about his own mood. He stretched his legs out in the aisle, paying scant attention to the earnest young man pacing in front of the cadet carabinieri, the elite police corps of Italy, and a few of his trusted lieutenants.
"This is a tricky mood to get right," the teacher intoned.
Rivera knew that his men were paying attention to the subjunctive, for he had made it clear to all that a good working knowledge of English was essential to the job and, above all, essential to a promotion. Police work nowadays was international, crossed too many frontiers. Rivera himself worked closely and often with Interpol, Europol, the FBI and the DEA. English was a must and his own was damned good.
So what was he doing wasting his time in a class? It wasn't even as if he had nothing better to do. His ...
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