Gentleman Traitor by Alan Williams

Author:Alan Williams [Williams, Alan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781913335809
Publisher: Sapere Books
Published: 2019-11-20T05:00:00+00:00

The old woman who came into the waiting-room to open the bar thought at first the man was drunk. He was lying across one of the tables, breathing hard. As soon as she began rattling up the shutters, he woke and came over to her. ‘Koñak,’ he whispered.

From his suit and tie she took him for another erring Muscovite. A middle-aged hooligan, she decided, as she poured a thimble measure of cheap Armenian brandy and held it back while the man counted out twelve kopeks. He swallowed it in a gulp, then returned to the table where he was soon asleep again with his head on his arm. He woke twenty minutes later with a clanging bell on the platform announcing the arrival of the express to Sochi. She watched him lope outside, and mouthed an elaborate Georgian oath as she glimpsed him climbing aboard the first-class sleeping car. These accursed Muscovites, coming down here with their pockets stuffed with roubles, getting drunk and chasing the girls, then riding home in the lap of luxury, while decent folk had to get up before dawn so that these parasites could play.

She was still muttering to herself when the train pulled out. Kim Philby had climbed into the upper berth, too tired even to undress. Except when he was woken to show his ticket, he slept the six hours to Rostov-on-Don.

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