CHAPTER 38
Though Donald Forbes had been notified via Hilary Newton’s telephone to expect the arrival of the German scientist, he was quite unprepared for the physical appearance of the man who stepped down from the latest Sycamore helicopter to land on Olney’s village green. Of the two men who alighted from the helicopter and ducked and ran to avoid the downdraft of the rotors, one was dressed in the uniform of the RAF police, which meant that the other could only be Wilhelm Koenig. Forbes wasn’t sure what he’d expected, but the fact that he’d been told that Koenig was a dissenter from the ideals of the Nazis who’d been forced to work on their weapons research programme had conditioned the Group Captain to expect a small, mousey and possibly cowed individual. The reality was far differen
