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‘Gregor, I would like you to keep watch on Mex. Anything out of routine please telephone me
immediately.’

George now felt it was time to let the Prime Minister know his money had been stolen.

‘Disappeared, how can six million dollars disappear?’

‘I have no idea Sir Peter. I have been using my sections budget to set up the initial contacts in
Guatemala,’ George lied, ‘and when I visited the bank I was informed the balance was zero, zilch,
nada.’

Sir Peter Povey’s cheeks started to swell like a puff adder and George wondered whether he was
about to have a heart attack. Not that George would care about that. This pompous, overbearing
Chief Mandarin had been the cause of events that had led to the death of four people including the
wife of his long-standing colleague and friend. He decided to increase the stress level.

‘Of course, Sir Peter, without any funds I will not be able to continue with my departments work. I
will have to put Guatemala on hold until the whereabouts of the money is discovered.’

‘Of course, of course, leave it with me.’

George left Whitehall with a spring in his step.

*****

Mex had been shocked to learn from Bryant that the body in the Thames was not that of Arnold
Warner. When George had told him about the arranged meeting in and that Warner had a very
compromising memo for sale, there was only one memo he could be referring to and that was the

handwritten memo he had been instructed to send Warner. When Gabriela could not get him to
disclose its whereabouts, then killing him would at least prevent him disclosing the memo to
anybody else.

Now the bank had disclosed that he was no longer in Boston but was hiding away using his Russian
given name. Mex could inform his Russian Masters that Warner was a traitor but that would reflect
badly on him and anyway, they would probably return him to Moscow and pay him a generous
salary. No, Mex decided he had to put paid to this traitor and in the process get him to hand over
the memo then Mex could carry on with his job at the CIA and his nice Moscow retainer.