Roos was found within the fortnight, in Antwerp rather than anywhere Vermeer had thought to look first, and gave a statement that took three days to complete and named, in the end, more people than anyone at Coster & Vries had expected a single frightened man to know.
Jo heard most of it secondhand, through Vermeer’s careful phone updates and Anselm’s own account after his interviews, because the criminal side of the case had moved, by then, entirely out of an insurer’s hands and into a set of proceedings that belonged to people with badges rather than loupes. Halbrecht Kunst BV, it turned out, had existed to move paintings nobody wanted traced through countries that asked fewer questions than the Netherlands did, and Roos, once he understood that the company he’d fronted for was going to survive this considerably better than he was, cooperated with a speed that told its…
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