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“I thought our job involved preserving democracy,” he said. “How does harassing a journalist help?” “Are you serious? It ought to be one of our key performance indicators.”
“Tell you what,” said Lamb. “You have a good long think about that, and see if you can come up with the answer all by yourself.”
Half of the future is buried in the past. That was
Breaking down happened best in darkness. When you’d been through that, you wanted to be near others who’d been through it too. Not because you needed to talk about it, but because you needed your need not to talk about it to be shared by those you were with.
But he had cared for her when it mattered, and so she cared for him in return. They were together
“It does if your cause involves chopping people’s heads off. Then you’re preaching right at your niche market.” Ho
“Ashenden.” “You get the picture. For my twelfth birthday, he bought me le Carré’s collected works. I can still remember what he said about them.” They’re made up. But that doesn’t mean they’re not true.
enthusiastic about placing them behind important desks. Taverner—Lady Di everywhere but to her face—had done her best to shake that particular tree, and if she’d been told ten years ago that a woman would be running the Service within the decade, she’d have assumed she’d be the woman in question.
“I don’t usually call anyone River. It’s not an everyday name.” “Blame my mother. She had a hippy phase. Did Lamb tell you to keep the job quiet?”
They’ve strapped him to that chair because he’s Al Qaeda, or’ll do nicely until the real thing comes along. These aren’t Islamic fuckwits waging war on Satan’s poodle. They’re home-grown fuckwits who think they’re taking it back to the enemy.” Nobody spoke. “I’m disappointed. Nobody think I’m off the wall?”
Information supplied early enough becomes hardwired into the brain, and this nugget had not only satisfied Hassan,
Nothing screwed you up faster than keeping score. And now he was at Ho’s place. He’d have
someone always pays. Make sure it isn’t you. Nobody knew that better than Jackson Lamb. And nobody played it better than Di Taverner.
