All I could conclude was that Percy was working for British intelligence inside the IRA, but if that were true then surely Maudlin would not have said what he did. He would have had high praise instead. Equally true was that nowhere had Maudlin mentioned hearing of Percy in Spain. What on earth was this to do with Paulo and Katherine? By 2003 Percy had been dead for twenty-one years. Was that relevant in any way? Sir Michael had not given me Charlie"s date of demise and as I was looking up his phone number to clarify that, the mobile that Jimmy had given me rang. I took it into the bathroom.
Mercer wanted a progress update to see if the ball was up and spinning as he so eloquently put it. I gave him an abridged, censored version of what I had, adding that I believed it all involved Irelan
