Chapter Sixteen
Private suite, Hotel Obrigado, Lisbon, Portugal – October 1973
Theodore Gibbs, former CIA officer, and now Comptroller of EXIS, a private and corporate intelligence business, guessed the only reason that he was in this predicament was that he was the victim of his own success. Oh, everyone knew that EXIS was nothing more than a front company, bought and owned by the CIA and that Gibbs, at the end of the day, took his orders directly from the senior men at Langley.
Gibbs had been a promising intelligence officer after his military service in the Second World War. He had fitted into the newly-formed CIA well and had risen steadily, so much so that he had been given a niche position within the Clandestine Services; handling the freelance burglars, kidnappers and contract sp
