Berg said: “I’ve never known you not to play it carefully. You always seem to me to take a lot of trouble about anything you do.” He grinned at Ransome.
Ransome said: “We’ve got a contact over there. The contact is already in touch with Ingrid and the two other resistance leaders we propose to bring over. But we cannot take any chances. They dare not move out of the district and we’ve got to know that they can come out of hiding and have a chance of being picked up by the plane. We can’t have any slip-ups. They’re much too valuable.”
Berg said: “Yeah, I can understand that. What’s the idea?”
“The idea is this,” said Ransome. “An air-raid will have to be put on—the usual thing—a box barrage of bombers dropping bombs, making a lot of noise, keeping the attention of the Germans concentrate
