Brian Lumley - Psychomech 02 by Psychosphere

Author:Psychosphere
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter

12

THE MEETING HAD BROKEN UP SHORTLY AFTER RE-ceiving the news of the sabotage attempt on Garrison's plane.

MI6 and friend had come up by train from Waterloo, Government Observer in his car. How, walking across The Chairman's drive together, Observer invited the other two: "Can I give you a lift back into the city? That way I could save both of you some time, and perhaps we could have a little chat. . .?"

"Thank you," M16 agreed at once. All three got into Observer's old Rover and sat there, waiting for the rest of the departing delegates to move their cars.

When the way was clear, Observer drove out of the grounds, down the driveway and onto the road for the city. From an upstairs window of the house, The Chairman watched them

go.

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The Chairman was not happy. He was in fact angry. Angry with MI6 (though of course the man had only been doing his job); with whoever had tried to blow Garrison out of the sky, for failing; but mainly with Charon Gubwa, who for some time had been getting a little too big for his boots.

The Chairman used Gubwa as an intelligence source, had done so for more years than he cared to think about, and in his turn Gubwa used him. Like Garrison, Gubwa was into business, did a little "financing" and etc. The Chairman had never worried too much about the etc., but it had made Gubwa rich. Very rich, The Chairman suspected, though not on Garrison's scale. But then, who was rich on Garrison's scale?

Oh, Gubwa was bent, most definitely, but he was also one superb grass! The Chairman had built his early reputation on Charon Gubwa's tip-offs. What he couldn't understand was Gubwa's sudden interest in Garrison—in his continued good health, that was to say.

It could be, of course, that Gubwa worked for Garrison, but The Chairman doubted that. Gubwa didn't really work for anyone, except himself. In many of their dealings—certainly in recent years—he had always suspected that Gubwa got far more out of their intelligence transactions than ever he did! It had dawned on him, too, that perhaps Gubwa was a double-agent, working not only for The Chairman and his branch but also for a number of foreign agencies.

Yes, unfortunately that did seem a strong possibility.

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But . . . Qubwa's organization did have a serious weakness: The Chairman knew the location of its headquarters. And he had long ago formulated certain courses of action. This was not a thought he let himself dwell upon too often: Qubwa had an uncanny knack of "knowing" or "predicting" things before they happened. It would not be in The Chairman's interests to have Qubwa discover the axe that he held over him. Not until he was ready to let it fall, at any rate.

As for Qubwa's headquarters:

In early 1944 when it had been rumored that Adolf Hitler might get the A-bomb first, several underground command posts had been built in and around London—subterranean shelters from which the war effort could be directed to the last.

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