Kudashov could not have known I"d been to India to meet Trubnikov, but from the moment we arrived at Beaulieu he was unusually defensive. He had eaten by the time of our arrival, which was fortunate as dinner would have delayed our deliberations. I thought he would be perturbed now there was less time than he"d said he would need to prepare before his granddaughter was rescued, but any disappointment he had was quickly tempered by the pleasure the video link installed in his sitting room gave him, accepting that as the reason for the temporary change of accommodation. It was one of them of course, but the other was more important.
I"d planned to leave a mobile phone with him when we left, which he would suspect I"d bugged in some way. If he was half the man I imagined him to be, he would
