Gregory's Game (2014)
“Through the nineties a good proportion of both surfaced in the Balkans, or in Africa, or found themselves nice little earners fighting for whatever faction was hiring, smuggling people, drugs, arms, anything else that could be fitted into a box. The cream were hired by other intelligence agencies.
‘Others faded away into the background. Someone once estimated that if you added up all the casual informants, all those on the payroll part-time, all those officially employed, the Stasi had one info...rmant for about every seven people in the general population. Most just got themselves lost in the background because that’s where they’d been all along.’ ‘And this Mason?’ ‘Went freelance. Some would say went rogue. He killed a number of his old colleagues, murdered a fair few what you’d term innocent civilians too. Rico Steadmann found a place for his expertise in his already extensive organization. Rico’s father was slowly handing over control but by the time the old man died, Mason already had his feet well and truly under the table.MoreLess
‘Others faded away into the background. Someone once estimated that if you added up all the casual informants, all those on the payroll part-time, all those officially employed, the Stasi had one info...rmant for about every seven people in the general population. Most just got themselves lost in the background because that’s where they’d been all along.’ ‘And this Mason?’ ‘Went freelance. Some would say went rogue. He killed a number of his old colleagues, murdered a fair few what you’d term innocent civilians too. Rico Steadmann found a place for his expertise in his already extensive organization. Rico’s father was slowly handing over control but by the time the old man died, Mason already had his feet well and truly under the table.MoreLess
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