The Care of Time by Eric Ambler

Author:Eric Ambler [Ambler, Eric]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-307-95009-3
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2012-12-11T16:00:00+00:00

The reply came back immediately.

BOB FROM LINDWURM. NAME OF NEGOTIATOR IS NEWELL. REPEAT NEWELL. ACKNOWLEDGE SHOWING YOU HAVE SPELLING OF NAME CORRECT.

I did as I had been told, then looked at Zander. ‘Does the name mean anything to you?’ I asked.

‘I will soon know when Jean-Pierre gets here. Where is he?’

‘Trying to get a taxi from a motel near the airport on a Sunday, I imagine. What do you want me to reply?’

‘Say I will telex acceptance or rejection within an hour.’

‘Why should you reject? On what grounds?’

‘If this Newell is not a lieutenant-general on the staff of Nato as you have led me to expect, I shall reject. And if we have not among the identifying photographs of senior Nato personnel in our dossiers a picture of this Newell so that I shall know it is he the moment I first set eyes on him, I shall reject. The Ruler will be trusting me to vouch personally that this man is who he says he is.’

I wasn’t going to use the word ‘rejection’ though. What I sent was:

BOB TO LINDWURM. NAME BEING CHECKED. WILL CALL BACK WITHIN HOUR IF ANY QUERY. OTHERWISE NOT.

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