Summerland by Hannu Rajaniemi

Author:Hannu Rajaniemi [Rajaniemi, Hannu]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781250178923
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
Published: 2018-06-25T21:00:00+00:00

When Peter returned to the Reading Room, he felt thin and hollow, frayed at the edges. Obtaining more vim had to wait, however. It would not do to leave just yet. He avoided looking at Astrid, found an empty desk and made a show of reading BRIAR’s report.

It pulled his thoughts away from the tantalising weight of the CAMLANN file in his mind and back to the situation in Spain. Besides Inez, he had been running two other agents, a secretary in the POUM party and an Anarchist barber with an influential and loose-tongued clientele. Handing them over to someone else felt like a betrayal.

Peter knew his guilt was completely irrational. Shpiegelglass was undoubtedly going to try to liquidate Dzhugashvili using the information Peter had provided. That was the first step in bringing the Republic under the Presence’s influence. And surely, that was the only way to end the needless fighting in Spain.

Or was it?

‘Hullo, Blooms, old boy!’

Peter lifted his gaze and looked right into the eyes of Noel Symonds.

Noel grinned. He was lean and slight with an impish face framed by unruly curls. In death, he did not look much different from their night-climbing days together in Cambridge. Although, of course, he now worked in Section A of the Summer Court, specialising in Counter-intelligence.

‘I have been looking for you all over,’ Noel said. ‘Would you be so good as to come with me, please? We’ll get you a cup of vim on the way.’

He clapped Peter on the shoulder.

‘You look like you could use it.’

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