
Between Silk and Cyanide



“If they’re telling Godfrey their secrets,” Perry said, “then they are not telling the Germans. Godfrey will be a conduit to divert their treachery into our own reservoir.” Metaphor really wasn’t his forte.
Kate Atkinson • Transcription: A Novel
In a secret drawer of his desk, making it difficult to open or close, lay docketed reports headed Villiers, Diana, widow of Charles Villiers, late of Bombay, Esquire, and Canning, Richard, of Park Street and Coluber House, co. Bristol. These two were as carefully documented as any pair of State suspects working for Bonaparte’s intelligence services
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