“If you"re sure the only time Dickie mentioned Kudashov"s name to you was in conjunction with an operation he was running on his own in Odessa, Fraser, then whatever code was being used then is how he had the name of the insider at GCHQ sent directly to him from Warsaw. That way, it would have avoided touching Sir John Scarlett"s desk or any on the seventh floor. He and Kudashov had a previous special code for the Russian op and worked it up again. You said yourself that Dickie never did things, or said things, without having a reason. He was laying the ground for something he might, or might never, have to use by telling you of Odessa.”
My conjecture was met by a hard, dubious look on Fraser"s face that remained when Molly opened the office door and sent him to bed. I begged permission t
