SS-GB: Nazi-occupied Britain 1941 by Len Deighton

Author:Len Deighton
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fiction in English, Fiction, Historical, War & Military, General, Espionage, Espionage & spy thriller
ISBN: 9780586050026
Publisher: St. Albans : Triad, 1980
Published: 1980-01-14T23:00:00+00:00

264 )ou look like hell,' she said with an amused smile. "And you smell of fried fish. Douglas Archer, where have you been? I've been eating my heart out.' It was just her way of joking, of course, but it was what he wanted to hear. They embraced tightly and then she put a hand against his cheek while she looked at him. 'Can I have a drink?' he asked. 'My darling, of course! His wife had never called him darling, and he found it a strange form of address, one confined, or so he'd thought, to movie stars. And the idea of Douglas asking for a drink as soon as he stepped through the door was one that would have surprised most people who knew him. She went into the kitchen, prised ice cubes from the tray and dropped them into two tumblers. Douglas told her about Harry Woods at the cattle market but he gave no speaking role to Sylvia. 'Only the Nazi press handouts are going out on the wire service,' said Barbara as she passed him his whisky. 'I've got a great story, and lots of photos, but there is a blackout. Hundreds of people have been arrested, you just have to take a cab up-town to see what's happening. Back home a dozen papers would have broken this story by now.' 'You're not back home,' Douglas reminded her. 'And the arrests number thousands, not hundreds.' A sudden ray of

265 sunlight lit up the white waHs of the kitchen but it didn't last long. 'Colonel Mayhew phoned. He wants to see you. He's coming here about eight! 'I have an arrest warrant for him. Huth wants to frighten him into doing a deal.' 'What kind of deal?' Wayhew gets the King and takes him to America. Huth gets a lot of atomic physics research. The Germans are trying to make an atomic explosion! She showed no surprise. "So I'd heard. Can I freshen that drink?' Douglas put his hand over the glass. 'They're both crazy,' he said. 'WhyT 'Because once the King gets to die USA, Mayhew wUl be left aside and forgotten. And as soon as Huth gets the research material, he will become superfluous. He is a lawyer; he has no scientific training. He had a lot of stuff extracted from German scientific papers and encyclopaedias as background, and two special reports by Professor Springer. I read it a1l; now I know nearly as much as Huth does.' 'Perhaps Mayhew and Huth are motivated by something other than arribitionT 'You can't be serious, Barbara! He smiled sadly. 'I've never met two men so alike in their ruthless ambition! She saw then the great strength within him, not the athletic superiority that men so often used to intimidate others, but a strength that was kind and unassuming. They went into the lounge and sat down on the ugly little sofa. Its loose cover, decorated with large green leaves, made it look like some carnivorous plant. 'Do you miss your wife?' she said.

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