Last Call for Blackford Oakes (2016)
“Over the years his friends, and in particular Rufina, had remarked the rages he would sometimes get into. Almost always these furors were, if not initiated by drink, intensified by it. Philby had already had several drinks when the telephone call came in from Captain Kuzmin, but before he scurried to Rufina’s desk to find and pull out the letter, he had another slug. When he slid open the letter, his hands were shaking with excitement. And then his eyes saw the name at the bottom.
He poured out... a full glass of whiskey and cursed. He closed his eyes to recreate the scene of his wedding reception.—That man, surveying the books in his library, was the most renowned agent in the enemy intelligence system. The same man who had confronted, and twice outwitted, Boris Bolgin. He had been in this very room! Receiving Philby’s hospitality. And, perhaps that very same night, only blocks away, impregnating a Russian woman. A Russian woman who was his own wife’s best friend. An illustrious professor of medicine.MoreLess
He poured out... a full glass of whiskey and cursed. He closed his eyes to recreate the scene of his wedding reception.—That man, surveying the books in his library, was the most renowned agent in the enemy intelligence system. The same man who had confronted, and twice outwitted, Boris Bolgin. He had been in this very room! Receiving Philby’s hospitality. And, perhaps that very same night, only blocks away, impregnating a Russian woman. A Russian woman who was his own wife’s best friend. An illustrious professor of medicine.MoreLess
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