Hans laughed, a bitter sound that had not much to do with humor. "Resign? Are you crazy? Do you really believe such things as resignation are possible in my position?"
He shook his head. "This is not one of your stories, where there is a happy end and we are all better off in the end. Resignation is at the end of a bullet, behind bars, or in a box, Herr Benoit. And I have no desire to go out any of those ways..."