Chapter Two
Colonel Mark O'Shaughnessy awaited his guests at the SIS Building at Vauxhall Cross on 85 Albert Embankment that next morning. He was mildly piqued that the operation seemed to have been thrown together so haphazardly. Yet he knew that developments on the world scene had dictated their timetable, and once again the safety of the free world was dropped in his lap. He also knew that he was but a cog in the vast machine, but his superiors were not providing him the luxury of allowing him to think so.
He had worked with two of the operatives before, and though they made a dynamic team he wondered whether they could reconcile their differences once again. Though they had continued to work deep undercover, they were different as night and day in every perspective. The third person
