The Silent Note

Every line he crossed, he measured first.

Viktor Aleksic is thirty-two, Serbian, and a conservation scientist - the person a heritage project calls when it needs to know what a four-hundred-year-old building is actually made of. He is rigorous, precise and widely respected. Since the end of the only relationship that ever mattered to him, he has also been entirely absent from his own life: functioning on the surface, hollow underneath, able to tell you the exact colour of wet stone on a Brno...