Chapter Five: VictorThe Saturday morning following the reception at the German Embassy, Jimmy, my driver, with Frank, my principal protection officer beside him, drove me to Fraser and Molly Ughert's home in Chearsley, Buckinghamshire, a journey I knew so well. I'd left Hannah in Whitehall and asked her to make a personal call on Michael Simmons at Group, where Hannah and I had met. She was my personal assistant when I was the one in charge there and Michael was my station officer. With my elevation he was now the man in charge, the new Director General.
I needed some information that I wanted concealed from both the Director Generals at military intelligence, MI5, and the secret intelligence service at MI6 for a while, and I knew I could trust Michael to deliver on that.
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