The Kremlin Device (1999)
“When our students noticed some pale faces and started asking questions, we pretended we’d once again been on the piss. In fact we were rapidly gaining a reputation – quite unjustified – as leading piss-artists, and we claimed to have been so smashed that we couldn’t remember the names of any of the bars we’d allegedly visited.
In fact we’d got back to barracks by 1.30 a.m., and I’d sent Hereford a coded message through the patrol radio to report the insertion of Apple. Late as it was, the lads were far too hyped up by the success of the operation to feel sleepy. As we had sat round the kitchen table with a brew, Pavarotti had croaked, ‘What the fuck have we done?’ perhaps partly in amazement because we’d managed it, partly in alarm at the possible consequences. ‘That’s put the frighteners on the bastards, anyway.’ ‘Not yet it hasn’t,’ I’d corrected. ‘It may do at some time in the future, but they don’t know about it yet.’ ‘If that thing went off now,’ Johnny had said, ‘what effect wou...ld it have on us here?’ ‘Ask Toad.’ Toad, as usual, was hovering at a distance from the rest of us.MoreLess
In fact we’d got back to barracks by 1.30 a.m., and I’d sent Hereford a coded message through the patrol radio to report the insertion of Apple. Late as it was, the lads were far too hyped up by the success of the operation to feel sleepy. As we had sat round the kitchen table with a brew, Pavarotti had croaked, ‘What the fuck have we done?’ perhaps partly in amazement because we’d managed it, partly in alarm at the possible consequences. ‘That’s put the frighteners on the bastards, anyway.’ ‘Not yet it hasn’t,’ I’d corrected. ‘It may do at some time in the future, but they don’t know about it yet.’ ‘If that thing went off now,’ Johnny had said, ‘what effect wou...ld it have on us here?’ ‘Ask Toad.’ Toad, as usual, was hovering at a distance from the rest of us.MoreLess
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