Joanna met Alex four years ago in Paris while she was working on a story.

She took herself to New York in the fall of 1947, where that spring she met Alex at a party.

This was the fourth occasion she had met Alex at the end of an assignment.

Having met Alex, I must say that a teenage assassin would be extremely useful to us.

Then I met Alex and in one day it all changed.

She meets Alex again and has taken him to Ireland to meet his grandparents.

I stumbled my way to a main road and caught a taxi to meet Alex, another friend of a friend.

In the next room, she meets Alex, who says that his investigation is over, and that they can leave now.

He'd arranged to meet Alex the following morning to drive to the funeral, and he seemed strangely subdued.

When we go back for the midday meal you'll meet Old Alex, the man who saved me.