your point?’ Roper asked.
‘I may be wrong, but I recall a story about an important letter that was the object of a heated search.’
‘I think I know the one you mean. The letter was in plain view all along, just another letter,’ Roper said. ‘And you think that might work for Kurbsky?’
‘Yes,’ Katya told him. ‘Let me give it some thought. But now, it’s time for lunch.’ She smiled at Monica. ‘If you’d mind helping me?’
‘Only if you call me Monica.’ They went out together and Svetlana reached and put a hand on Roper’s knee.
‘There is much more going on with Alex than it seems, I’m sure of it. I don’t know what it is, but I will find out, I promise you, my dear.’
‘So you and Katya will come on board, help us to find a solution?’
‘What else would I do? Alexander is my blood, and blood is everything. Now – I’m an old woman now and haven’t time to waste, so forgive my directness. When Monica was telling us the story, she mentioned General Ferguson and one of his closest associates, a Sean Dillon, who used to be with the IRA.’
‘Yes. When the General persuaded him, if you could call it that, to join the organization, he said it was because he needed someone who could be worse than the bad guys.’
‘I see. And it is this man whom Monica favours?’
‘You could put it that way.’
‘I look forward to meeting him. Kelly flirted with the IRA when he was a student in Dublin. He once said it brought out the romantic in him.’
‘There wasn’t anything in the least romantic about the IRA in Belfast in the years I was there,’ he told her.
‘But that is all over now, my dear, a long, long time ago.’
That evening, there was a council of war at Holland Park. Ferguson was there, Roper, Monica, Dillon, and Harry and Billy Salter.
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