“By that you mean Cilicia, or is there someone else as well as her?” It was Hannah who asked the family related question.
“I refer to Cilicia, yes. I lost my son and his wife some years ago when the aircraft he was flying crashed near the Russian border with Finland. My wife died some considerable time before that sad happening. My dear granddaughter is all I have left in the world. She is precious to me. I will not leave her in the position she is.”
“Following on from what you"ve just said, can we assume this laboratory is in Russia?” she asked.
He did not answer the question. “I have a good, well-practised memory, but it"s not as it once was. I forget things now that I would not have done when I was a field agent. Here.” He reached inside the breast pocket of his suit jacket and remov
