Manhunt
“Within a few minutes he was heading for Paris on the A26 autoroute, driving at a few kilometres per hour above the legal speed limit.
In the boot of the car was a small suitcase containing enough clothes for the weekend, his washing kit and a couple of books. Nobody on either side of the Channel had bothered looking inside the case, or even in the boot. But it wouldn’t have mattered if they had, for Stanway’s Browning Hi-Power 9-millimetre semi-automatic pistol – which Lomas provided almost... five years ago, only after repeated requests – wasn’t in the suitcase. Instead, it was wrapped in an old towel, together with two spare and fully loaded magazines, and hidden under the rear-seat squab.
Stanway knew all about documentation and the kinds of tracing action that the British intelligence establishment could and would employ, and had decided that the simplest option was just to be as open as possible about what he was doing, and where he was going.MoreLess
In the boot of the car was a small suitcase containing enough clothes for the weekend, his washing kit and a couple of books. Nobody on either side of the Channel had bothered looking inside the case, or even in the boot. But it wouldn’t have mattered if they had, for Stanway’s Browning Hi-Power 9-millimetre semi-automatic pistol – which Lomas provided almost... five years ago, only after repeated requests – wasn’t in the suitcase. Instead, it was wrapped in an old towel, together with two spare and fully loaded magazines, and hidden under the rear-seat squab.
Stanway knew all about documentation and the kinds of tracing action that the British intelligence establishment could and would employ, and had decided that the simplest option was just to be as open as possible about what he was doing, and where he was going.MoreLess
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