Doctor How and the Dragons by Mark Speed

Author:Mark Speed [Speed, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-12-06T22:00:00+00:00

“The foreign secretary is on her way up, Sir Adrian,” said his PA over the intercom.

“Thank you, Miss Halfpenny.” He turned his attention to Thickett. “It’s a bit of a day of reckoning for MI16, Thickett. I’ve held it off as long as I could, and given you a lot of leeway. Mrs Peebles wants a few words of explanation.” Sir Adrian had to concede that Thickett was doing remarkably well for a man who’d taken fifty thousand volts from a Taser the previous afternoon.

“I really haven’t got time to waste on ministerial presentations,” said Thickett. “If I’d known this was on the cards I’d have delegated this unplanned activity to Miss Peterson.”

“Doctor Peterson is down at the Defence Laboratory in Porton Down, as you well know. She’s trying to assess the risk. She’s also been trying to track down the source of the Bricky. Besides, only the other day you were telling me that you had a mind to invoke some kind of departmental clause and go over my head to the prime minister himself — never mind just the foreign secretary. And you have plenty to talk about. There’s the small matter of some kind of griffin made of Bricky roaming Essex and attacking a police station. Countless thousands of pounds worth of damage. Scores of witnesses — police witnesses, mark you, not to mention our four special delivery lads — put you at the very centre of it.”

“I can explain everything,” said Thickett, wondering why Sir Adrian was suddenly on his feet.

“Oh, good,” said Mrs Peebles, who’d entered the room silently behind Thickett. “I’m very much looking forward to that, Mr Thicky.”

“It’s Thickett,” he said weakly.

Two young keen-looking ministerial aides — one male, one female — entered the room behind Mrs Peebles and began taking notes. It didn’t take a genius to work out that Thickett’s story had better be good, and Sir Adrian was looking forward to the entertainment. Barbara Peebles was a steely politician in her fifties, known as Barbie in the press. The Barbie nickname wasn’t on account of her appearance being similar to the doll of the same name. Rather, it was on account of her notoriously brutal nature. Some said it related to the way she would roast — or ‘Barbara-cue’ — people in debates. Others said it was because she was barbed in her mannerisms, or even ruthlessly barbaric in her dealings with those who crossed her.

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