Chapter 14
Chapter 14
The body might easily have been disposed of. It might easily have never been found. That, however, was not the purpose of the exercise. It would have been more sensational to have placed the body nearer to Whitehall, nearer to the seat of power, but there were practical elements of operational security to consider.
A man walking with his dog an hour before dawn saw it and raised the alarm. The n***d corpse had been attached to a telephone pole in Berkshire. More accurately, it had been nailed up, crucified. The man stood mesmerized. His dog sniffed the air and looked on as his master vomited.
The crucified corpse was really just a collection of wounds held together in the face of gravity. Large and small cuts covered nearly every inch, punctuated by horrific bu
