Book 3, Burton Crane
Chapter 12MANY AMBASSADORS HAD FLED Albania for consultations in better-stocked capitals; so too the British. The chargé d’affaires was a young lion from a line of blue bloods; a man Crane tipped for an easy rise within the ranks, if he could crawl back out of this hellhole with spotless marks of distinction.
The British Counselor did not want the case channeled through the Embassy, as they were already handling the exhumed body of Charles Grenville, a Canadian mining magnate who was at least Commonwealth. Both Konrad and Mayer were German citizens. Unimpressed by American meddling on his turf, NATO or not, the young lion resisted.
He was put straight by urgent instructions from the Foreign Office in London.
“The bloody country is going to the dogs, Mr. Murray,” he
