‘From my experience of government departments,’ said Jack, ‘they couldn’t order the right size of staples, let alone succeed in anything as bizarrely complex as a murder and then a subsequent cover-up.’ ‘Yes,’ agreed Parks sulkily, ‘it’s where that particular mainstay of conspiracy theory falls down. I hate to admit it, but governmental deviousness is usually better explained by incompetence, vanity and the need to protect one’s job at all costs.
