Wolfe’s<\/a> old friend, Marko Vukcic, has been shot dead.<\/p>\nAfter Archie identifies the body, Wolfe joins him in the morgue and insists on going to the crime scene and then to the Rusterman’s restaurant, owned by Marko.<\/p>\n
When they return home they find Carla, Wolfe’s adopted daughter. Carla tells them that she and Marko were involved in a movement to ensure the independence of Montenegro.<\/p>\n
During the three weeks after the murder, Wolfe follows several lines of investigation and receives a second visit from Carla, enraged that the police are investigating the background of the independence movement.<\/p>\n
Soon after, Wolfe receives news from an informant in Bari, Italy. He states that Carla has arrived in Bari and crossed the Adriatic Sea to Montenegro.<\/p>\n
This information is followed by a cryptic message about the murderer’s whereabouts: “the man you are looking for is in sight of the mountain.”<\/p>\n
Finally, another message arrives stating that Carla has been killed.<\/p>\n
Realizing that “the mountain” must be Lov\u0107en in Montenegro, Wolfe makes immediate plans to go there and find Marko’s killer, accompanied by Archie.<\/p>\n
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