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 It was possible, Sofia Ravello would tell the Carabinieri later that day, to spend the majority of one's waking hours in another man's home, to prepare his meals and wash his sheets and sweep his floors, and to know absolutely nothing about him.  The officer from the Carabinieri, whose name was Caruso, did not take issue with her statement, for the woman who had shared his bed for the last twenty-five years was at time a perfect stranger to him.  He also knew a bit more about the victim than he had thus far revealed to the witness.  The man was a murder waiting to happen.

-Daniel Silva, The Collector