SAMPLE 1
In the following excerpt Anthony Ashley-Chetwyne, a junior barrister, has had an unexpected visit from ‘a Colonel Jackson on behalf of the Home Department’. During that encounter the Colonel had produced a photograph which had puzzled Anthony. On this present day he has another meeting, this time with Booth, the chambers’ clerk. It is another meeting which also leaves him puzzled – things being hinted at but not explained. The second surprise of the day, immediately afterwards, is the appearance of Philip Hathers QC, a senior barrister. It is at this point that Anthony begins to be drawn into a world of secrets and manipulation.
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SAMPLE 2
Anthony is supposed to be visiting this evening the parents of Carolyne, his fianceé-to-be. In an afternoon meeting with Philip Hathers, however, he learns that he has been ‘volunteered’ to go that same evening to meet Arnold Ward, a press correspondent for Eastern Europe. Anthony is by now involved with the files, including Ward’s reports, relating to a Member of Parliament suspected of selling secret information. Arnold Ward is to become central to that case and Anthony’s involvement. Meanwhile Carolyne has been contacted by William, a mutual friend of Carolyne and Anthony from Oxford days. William has already been recruited to ‘the service’ for another purpose.
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