Book 3, Burton Crane
Chapter 6BURTON CRANE CAUGHT THE afternoon flight from Munich to London, two hours after his snub-nosed meeting with Baron Keltenbrunner. With no time to spare for a report to Wiesbaden, he called in from Heathrow to tell the station chief he was going home to see the wife.
Angry disapproval found Crane long past caring.
The German minister of the interior had dispatched a protest against unauthorized meddling to NATO’s Wiesbaden headquarters. The Innenminister was one of the baron’s cronies, and he controlled the Cologne Verfassungsschutz, charged with the surveillance of anti-constitutional activities in Germany. but who was minding the minder?
There would be no wriggle-room from under a full report. This was no laughing matter, tramping on tender Teutonic toes i
