What’s more, ben Zinowicz didn’t have a control, he was the control. And he used his job to contact the people who worked for him. What did they call it in the le Carré TV series? Running a mole or something like that. He could never follow all the convolutions of the plots—had he now fallen into one?
And Francis, exactly how did he fit in?
Hold on a minute! Was he just getting paranoid—seeing criminals and hidden motives everywhere he looked? Maybe that was an occupational hazard of the detective business.
He stood up and walked around the room. There were nautical prints on the walls and a naval officer’s commission in an ornate frame. Another frame held three medals. Lindsey recognized two of them because Mother had received the same ones from the Navy Department for Father. One was
