Scar Tissue (2014)
“Picking it up swiftly, he mouthed, ‘Jan,’ to me, and settled down to listen, his face increasingly stern. ‘You’re joking! …I don’t believe it! … You cannot be serious!’ he added in John McEnroe mode. At last he cut the call. ‘You may not believe this,’ he said, almost grinding his teeth, ‘but the man they need to see is in a meeting. And the man below him. And his deputy. All very important! Top brass! All too bloody busy talking about fighting crime to fight crime.’ ‘Is there no one else –?’ ‘...I’m quite sure there is,’ he said grimly. ‘But you don’t know Jan like I know Jan. She’s going to see the top man if she has to sit there till midnight. And maybe she’s right, in the present instance. Maybe only the top guy has the clout to sort all this out. OK. Did you want that afternoon tea or do you want to check dutifully into your hotel and suss out Fullers?’ I blinked. ‘What about Jan – don’t you want to discuss it with her?’ ‘The mood she’s in now she’d tell us to go and make sure we took a machine gun.MoreLess
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