World War Two Will Not Take Place (2011)

Authors: Bill James

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“Section kept a service apartment under the S.C. Naughton name off Hindenburgdamm in Steglitz, a sedate, tree-lined suburb to the south-west of the capital. Mount had used it several times in the last couple of years and considered the address still reasonably anonymous. The apartment itself was on the second floor in a very modern, New Objectivity – Neue Sachlichkeit – style block, built in the late 1920s or early 1930s, Mount would guess, though much of the district’s imposing grey stone and r...ed-brick property went back to mid nineteenth century. It was a suitable kind of prosperous, developing area for the pied-à-terre of a British company’s visiting executive. But no matter how right it might be, Section wouldn’t lease this kind of accommodation for more than three years. An unusual pattern of usage – or more a non-pattern – might get it noticed. There’d be a change soon.
Mount knew what his mission was, of course. Stephen Bilson had briefed him earlier today in that painstaking style of his.MoreLess Read More Read Less