The Dead Can Wait
“He had expected danger in foreign lands, but had joined just two months before the schism that created two separate agencies, one for home and one for abroad. He had been deemed most suitable for work within the British Isles.Even that held out hope of Richard Hannay-type adventures: dinner at the Café Royal, drinks at the Ritz, gambling at Brooks’s interspersed with daring train dashes, narrow escapes and uncovering spy rings. But Ackland, cursed with a congenital limp that kept him out of the army when he came down from Cambridge, was probably not considered train-dash material by the people at the top.It was true that Colonel R., the man who had recruited him at a hotel in Northumberland Avenue, had warned him the job was ‘ninety-five per cent tedium and when you are in the midst of the five per cent, you find yourself praying for tedium once more.’It hadn’t all been dull. He had once found himself helping Gibson and Coyle, the department’s old hands, arrest two men in Hull.
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