State Of Emergency by Andy McNab

Author:Andy McNab [McNab, Andy]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781448111138
Publisher: Transworld
Published: 2015-05-20T23:00:00+00:00

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19.30

Home Office, Westminster

Henry hovered near the desk while the new home secretary pored over the letter. He was thrilled. Everybody wanted to speak to Vernon Rolt and he had got him all to himself. He wanted to make an impression early, to show him that he had an ally in the office, someone who was on side, keen to be part of the new team and ready for whatever was thrown at him. The outer office was still in shock after the brazen way Rolt had set about briefing the Newsday editor on the Syrian returnee. But Henry wanted to show he wasn’t like the foot-draggers and tooth-suckers. Finding the letter to Garvey from the terrorist’s sister couldn’t have happened at a more opportune moment.

His new master was still reading. There was a powerful intensity to the man, as if he was capable of great concentration and deep thought. ‘Very interesting,’ he murmured.

Henry nodded, but Rolt was still focusing on the letter so he just stood by. What a difference twenty-four hours made. Garvey had been a law unto herself, careless of her public image, putting her own interests first, a source of ongoing exasperation to others when she wouldn’t toe the line. She actually seemed to thrive on being awkward. Rolt was totally professional, attentive to whoever spoke to him and careful to remember names. Yet there was something beneath the polished exterior that slightly frightened Henry, as if a whole other side to him was lurking below the surface that might burst out if provoked.

Rolt looked up at him, his eyes blazing in a way that was both exciting and alarming. ‘And this is a constituent of my predecessor?’

‘That’s right, Home Secretary.’

‘So it’s true what they’ve been saying, that she was soft on the Muslim community?’

Henry couldn’t remember Garvey being ‘soft’ on anything or anyone, but he let Rolt draw his own conclusions from his silence.

‘And from the letter we can safely conclude that either the girl had absolutely no idea what her brother was capable of or is in complete denial.’ Rolt folded the letter and passed it back to him. ‘Find out everything you can about the family. I think Jamal “Al Britani” is going to discover that he couldn’t have picked a worse time to come home.’

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