Eau Rouge Standoff

The morning sun rose over the royal park of Monza, filtering through the emerald canopy of ancient plane trees and illuminating the crimson-draped fences where thousands of Tifosi were already chanting into the cool dawn air. Inside her private office at the back of the Scuderia Rossi motorhome, Elena had not slept for a single second. The manila envelope containing Marcus Sterling’s surveillance photographs lay open across the glass surface…