Traitor's Kiss by Gerald Seymour

Traitor's Kiss by Gerald Seymour

Author:Gerald Seymour [Seymour, Gerald]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Thriller
ISBN: 9781585676330
Amazon: 1585676330
Barnesnoble: 1585676330
Goodreads: 470427
Publisher: The Overlook Press
Published: 2002-12-31T19:00:00+00:00


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The cell had been warm and the mattress in it had been comfortable. If the woman had stood up in court, and he'd gone down, Ham Protheroe could have survived a year banged up in gaol. Not liked it, but survived it. She wouldn't have gone to court. She'd have cracked, pulled out, looked to keep her dignity intact. For fourteen years no one had ever come to him, asked something of him, wanted his help.

Not his parents in the Cheshire suburb after he'd 'borrowed' from them. The photographs of him, they'd promised, were out of the frames, shredded and bin-dumped – and he was out of their wills. And he was out of the 'Royals' and out of the Squadron. Russian linguist and communications expert, Ham was thirty-nine years old, and a little boy lost – an evacuee kid on a train going nowhere, but with the label identifying him torn off. There was no love in his life. When the body had been lifted from the water, when the bleak-faced bastards of the local Crime Squad had interrogated him, he had lied and had not broken, but when he had gone out of the interview room they had not hidden their contempt for him. For twelve years, without a family, he had lived off lies.

Why was he there?

Locke – the 'fucking prat'—had taken him out of the police station and given him back his family. It was like he was again in the snow and on the ice, or in the canoe, in the wastes and fjords of northern Norway – and like he was back on the exercises when they climbed the steel ladders of the oil rigs while the North Sea pounded below, and like he was back on the yomp treks on Exmoor and across the Brecons, like he was back with his pride. It was, for Ham, a purging, a cleansing, of the stench of that contempt. He had walked the Damascus road. He had allowed himself to be recruited to get the smell of it from his nose.



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