Paternoster (2015)
“At this rate the police would have identified Donna and searched her house before she even got there. The clock was ticking. The pathologist would already have alerted the police to Paul’s suspicious death; it wouldn’t be long before they made the connection between Paul and Donna, and then she’d be muscled out of the investigation altogether.
The lights changed and she accelerated, turning towards the imposing circular building that housed GCHQ, the spy base. It was known locally as the doughn...ut because it was built in a ring, the middle part of grass and shrubs visible from the air. Myths abounded about the place: it was haunted by spies who’d committed suicide, that there was an underground train connecting it to Downing Street, that Cheltenham was riddled with spy escape tunnels.
She’d been inside once, years ago, when she was Jackie, and had quickly become muddled by the building’s layout, glad she was escorted everywhere otherwise she was convinced that she would have spent the rest of her natural life wandering in circles, trying to find her way out.MoreLess
The lights changed and she accelerated, turning towards the imposing circular building that housed GCHQ, the spy base. It was known locally as the doughn...ut because it was built in a ring, the middle part of grass and shrubs visible from the air. Myths abounded about the place: it was haunted by spies who’d committed suicide, that there was an underground train connecting it to Downing Street, that Cheltenham was riddled with spy escape tunnels.
She’d been inside once, years ago, when she was Jackie, and had quickly become muddled by the building’s layout, glad she was escorted everywhere otherwise she was convinced that she would have spent the rest of her natural life wandering in circles, trying to find her way out.MoreLess
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