Chapter Nineteen: GunfireDestination Windsor was scrubbed, as indeed was Sussex. It was to Whitehall that the convoy returned. I quickly changed and freshened up, then used the underground tunnel from the Foreign Office building and emerged in the offices of the private secretary to the Prime Minister. After an intolerably long time spent briefing the PM from the information that Zerby had given me, I escaped back to the apartment in the FO building. I consulted with both Zerby and Simmons over the security arrangements at the site of the threat: Victoria railway station, along with arrangements made at all ports of entry and departure in mainland Britain.
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