Lion's Run: A NovelThe upper echelon of British Intelligence has just collapsed. Director-General Sir Kenneth Aubrey has been charged with treason. It seems a ludicrous mistake, until the damming evidence piles up: a videotape shows Aubrey begging the KGB for asylum and a top-secret Moscow file called Teardrop reveals a long-hidden history of Aubrey's treachery dating from 1946. Aubrey's survival depends on the only man who believes in his innocence: Patrick Hyde, his aide and bodyguard. |
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... Schwechat was like any airfield in Eastern Europe : a bare , flat child's model of a grown - up's real airport . He and Margaret had flown into Schwechat often , visiting concerts , operas , galleries in Vienna . . . . The thought ...
... Schwechat was like any airfield in Eastern Europe : a bare , flat child's model of a grown - up's real airport . He and Margaret had flown into Schwechat often , visiting concerts , operas , galleries in Vienna . . . . The thought ...
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... Schwechat airport in tiny , sepa- rate cells below ground . As he waited after dialing Kapustin's number at Moscow Centre , he checked the dials and lights on the encryption unit's face . Was Aubrey glancing slyly at him ? Perhaps not ...
... Schwechat airport in tiny , sepa- rate cells below ground . As he waited after dialing Kapustin's number at Moscow Centre , he checked the dials and lights on the encryption unit's face . Was Aubrey glancing slyly at him ? Perhaps not ...
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... Schwechat , to witness from this very window the tail unit of the Soviet airliner still jutting from the Aeroflot hangar . And the police cars , lights turning and washing over the aircraft's tail and the open hangar doors . And the ...
... Schwechat , to witness from this very window the tail unit of the Soviet airliner still jutting from the Aeroflot hangar . And the police cars , lights turning and washing over the aircraft's tail and the open hangar doors . And the ...
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