Ian Fleming - James Bond 08 by For Your Eyes Only
Author:For Your Eyes Only
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2012-02-21T11:32:32+00:00
Bond 8 - For Your Eyes Only
RISICO
âIn this pizniss is much risico.â
The words came softly through the thick brown moustache. The hard black eyes moved slowly over Bondâs face and down to Bondâs hands which were carefully shredding a paper match on which was printed Albergo Colombo, dâOro.
James Bond felt the inspection. The same surreptitious examination had been going on since he had met the man two hours before at the rendezvous in the Excelsior bar. Bond had been told to look for a man with a heavy moustache who would be sitting by himself drinking an Alexandra. Bond had been amused by this secret recognition signal. The creamy, feminine drink was so much cleverer than the folded newspaper, the flower in the buttonhole, the yellow gloves that were the hoary, slipshod call-signs between agents. It had also the great merit of being able to operate alone, without its owner. And Kristatos had started off with a little test. When Bond had come into the bar and looked round there had been perhaps twenty people in the room. None of them had a moustache. But on a corner table at the far side of the tall, discreet room, flanked by a saucer of olives and another of cashew nuts, stood the tall-stemmed glass of cream and vodka. Bond went straight over to the table, pulled out a chair and sat down.
The waiter came. âGood evening, sir. Signor Kristatos is at the telephone.â
Bond nodded. âA Negroni. With Gordonâs, please.â
The waiter walked back to the bar. âNegroni. Uno. Gordonâs.â
âI am so sorry.â The big hairy hand picked up the small chair as if it had been as light as a matchbox and swept it under the heavy hips. âI had to have a word with Alfredo.â
There had been no handshake. These were old acquaintances. In the same line of business, probably. Something like import and export. The younger one looked American. No. Not with those clothes. English.
Bond returned the fast serve. âHowâs his little boy?â
The black eyes of Signor Kristatos narrowed. Yes, they had said this man was a professional. He spread his hands. âMuch the same. What can you expect?â
âPolio is a terrible thing.â
The Negroni came. The two men sat back comfortably, each one satisfied that he had to do with a man in the same league. This was rare in âThe Gameâ. So many times, before one had even started on a tandem assignment like this, one had lost confidence in the outcome. There was so often, at least in Bondâs imagination, a faint smell of burning in the air at such a rendezvous. He knew it for the sign that the fringe of his cover had already started to smoulder. In due course the smouldering fabric would burst into flames and he would be brâlâ. Then the game would be up and he would have to decide whether to pull out or wait and get shot at by someone. But at this meeting there had been no fumbling.
Later that
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