The Chinese Spymaster by Hock Tjoa

Author:Hock Tjoa [Tjoa, Hock]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-09-30T16:00:00+00:00

10: THE JOURNEY TO THE WEST

(London)

“All right, let’s see what we’ve got, shall we?” said Britain’s head of intelligence, Penelope Cecil, addressing her top staff at Monday “prayers.”

This was their formal weekly meeting of all departments to review operations and new developments, held in their conference room. This room contained several large, flat-screen monitors for reviewing and monitoring operations, and nothing of a personal or decorative nature.

The Spymistress arrived at this position in the intelligence service less than a year ago after a stellar twenty-year career with the police which she joined a year after university. She had spent that year “finding herself,” months in a monastery in Sri Lanka, and then in Thailand, where she was reported to have pushed herself through a grueling course at a martial arts academy. As a result, she approached the in-fighting and bureaucracy of police work, at least in her first few years, with a serenity and detachment that unsettled her colleagues and seniors.

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