Chapter 4
By mid-evening, Flic had travelled out to Hammersmith. The key to the storage unit was in her bag but she wouldn't be examining the crate yet – the crate that Alan the van man had collected, six months before, from the safe house in Crickelwood. The contents had been gathered together for the rainy days that she'd known would lie ahead. On the first inspection, she would retrieve what she needed to herald her return. The rest would sit and wait in the darkness, ready to be deployed when the game was in full swing.
In order for that to happen, she had to be careful. She was confident no one knew she'd been at the MI6 safe house that had been awaiting refurbishment, and there was nothing to connect her to the delivery driver. The storage unit had been rented in another name, for
