“You’re going to cause a lot of trouble if you do that,” Harmon said.
“All this happened because no one wanted the trouble the truth would cause. Seems like the lies don’t do much better than the truth.”
“And you?” she added in a different tone of voice.
“And I’m going away,” Lake said. He met her eyes for a long minute, then turned and walked away toward the tied-up SDV. Harmon stood still, then quickly walked toward the tub, her men following her.
Soon there was no one but Lake left alive on the island. He strolled over to Feliks’s body and reached into his jacket. He pulled out the old OSS cigarette case.
When the first police boat reached the island, Lake was on his second smoke.