Chapter Eighteen: The LevantFrank and Jimmy were back on duty by that Sunday afternoon and it was with them that I travelled to Fraser Ughert, first depositing Kudashov at the deportation centre in Croydon on the way from The Lodge, on the grounds that his detention was conductive for the public good, and he needed to be kept in a secure confinement, pending expatriation.
At Chearsley, Fraser's Circle of Eight was up for discussion with a previously investigated American and Russian pinned firmly to our agenda. They had both first crossed our path five years earlier when the three of us, Hannah, Fraser, and I, successfully managed to stop the aspirations detailed inside the top-secret, corrupted CIA file—Gladio B.
We were fortunate in preventing the vast majority of the short-term aims o
