Inside Enemy

Inside Enemy

Language: English

Pages: 336

ISBN: 1471102505

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


Charles Thoroughgood is now the recently-appointed chief of a reconstituted MI6, married to his predecessor's widow and tasked with halting the increasingly disruptive cyber attacks on Britain, which are threatening government itself and all the normal transactions of daily life - not to mention a missing nuclear missile-carrying submarine. At the same time another aspect of Charles Thoroughgood's past emerges with the murder of one of his former agents and the escape from prison of a former colleague turned traitor, whom Charles Thoroughgood had helped convict. Charles Thoroughgood ploughs a lonely furrow in Whitehall in his belief that all these elements are connected, a theory which dramatically gains credibility when his wife, Sarah, is kidnapped.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

clothes he carried in a green Marks & Spencer’s bag. Walking briskly now, he bought a return ticket to the Silverhill industrial estate from the machine by the bus stop, paying cash. He got off outside a tyre-fitter, a car-parts warehouse and a block of flats behind which were two rows of lock-up garages with black doors. Some had cars, others the overspill of various businesses. Amidst the coming and going, loading and unloading, no-one heeded the man in the sober blue shirt who unlocked number

palatial room in the Hotel Sacher, Vienna, while Charles was notionally attending one of those forgettable disarmament conferences. They had met earlier that day, and Charles was about to check out when Viktor triggered the signal for an emergency second meeting. ‘I have twenty minutes,’ he said, looking unusually pale and serious. In those days he had a moustache. He was often jokey, usually at Charles’s expense, but this time there was no joshing. ‘There is a problem. Not a problem with me.

no computers and no lights. Only the phones worked. ‘Since it’s possible that his work for us was what got Configure murdered,’ said Charles, ‘we’ve no alternative but to tell the police everything. But can we trust them not to plaster it all over the press or the blogosphere or whatever it’s called?’ ‘Would that matter? If it was the Russians who killed him they already know what he did and where he was. And if it wasn’t them it’s too late for them to do anything about it anyway. So there’s

‘I told you before, I don’t know him. I don’t know where he is.’ ‘You must ask your husband. He can discover him.’ ‘I’ll try.’ She made a needless note, thinking it might impress him. ‘But why do you want to know? Why are you so interested in him? Is he still in MI6?” ‘Please.’ He held up his hand. ‘In Moscow they are suspicious of people who ask questions.’ ‘All right.’ She put down her pen. ‘Tell me what else you would like to know.’ ‘Moscow will tell me and I will tell Katya and she will

might not have a gun at all. But she daren’t look round. ‘Stop.’ They stopped, facing the brick steps. ‘You – fatso – lie down where you are, face down.’ At least he hadn’t meant her. Jeremy knelt. With his hands above his head he had to roll half onto his side to get onto his belly. She had a glimpse of his face, which showed no hint of a message or even of recognition; he seemed wholly concentrated on manoeuvring his body. ‘Now you, go over to the table, turn and face me and empty your

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