Confessor
“He had become a man of habit, something he would never have been before the alarms came off when the U.S.S.R. closed up shop.
Nowadays Archie was still on call, still attended briefings, even went into the Office a couple a times a week. Apart from that he had become a creature of custom: one who moved mainly to a set routine. In the old days they were reminded constantly of Moscow Rules, which meant always behave as you would in the field, always act as though they had you under twenty-four-hour surveillance. Always, particularly in the bright little, tight little island nation of Great Britain.
Yet the Whizzer, great fixer that he was, usually left his bachelor apartment in Bury Street at around six in the evening. He would turn right and walk down to King Street, where he would take a left, then a left again into Pall Mall. He would wait to cross the road, and so walk up to the Travellers’ Club, where he would normally find other friends of a similar persuasion.
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Nowadays Archie was still on call, still attended briefings, even went into the Office a couple a times a week. Apart from that he had become a creature of custom: one who moved mainly to a set routine. In the old days they were reminded constantly of Moscow Rules, which meant always behave as you would in the field, always act as though they had you under twenty-four-hour surveillance. Always, particularly in the bright little, tight little island nation of Great Britain.
Yet the Whizzer, great fixer that he was, usually left his bachelor apartment in Bury Street at around six in the evening. He would turn right and walk down to King Street, where he would take a left, then a left again into Pall Mall. He would wait to cross the road, and so walk up to the Travellers’ Club, where he would normally find other friends of a similar persuasion.
Friends was the ope...rative word.MoreLess
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