My watch showed I’d been inside air-conditioned passages within the MI6 building for over five hours, but if asked, I would have said it had been more like ten days. Talking, or discussing, outcomes had never ranked highly on my list of favourite pastimes, particularly if it had not solved anything, as was the case here. At least I had not met my executioner.
Nobody could describe the walk under the River Thames as being scenic. The tunnel is not uninteresting, though it must have been so for the person watching the television monitors as I never saw anyone else walking through it. I had been told the tunnel ran diagonally under the river until roughly between Vauxhall Bridge and Lambeth Bridge, when it then followed a straight line underneath Millbank, passing the House of Lords, then We
