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The Israeli Embassy, Palace Gardens, London – The Next Day
‘What do you want me to say?’
‘Thank you, Rafi, for covering my a*s. Thank you, Rafi, for saving the operation. Thank you, Rafi, for making me look a better intelligence officer than I am. How about that – just for starters?’
‘You are an arrogant s**t,’ Eli said.
‘Name calling isn’t going to change the facts.’
‘Which are that if you would have had better contact procedures with Trainer then she wouldn’t have been tailing me around Bath while I was carrying a suicide belt in a sports bag. For God’s sake, Rafi, once you got the text from Trainer saying that she was going to be in Bath, how hard would it have been to get a message to me?’
‘By the time I found out that school woman was making Trainer go to Bath you were alrea
