Zero Hour (2010) ns-13
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I flicked the kettle on.
She opened the door. Jules stood there with a black wheelie, his face once more a vision of perfection.
They kissed and she ushered him in.
I’d said no at first to a meeting. He’d made his choice. I’d made mine. Lesson learnt. But Anna was right. If he wanted to come over, fuck it, he could.
Jules stared at me from the hallway. He held out a hand. ‘Hello, Nick.’
He looked apprehensive, but he needn’t have. I didn’t care that he knew where we were, or even if Tresillian did. Anna had written up her version of what had happened, and together with mine and Lily’s, it was floating on the Apple MobileMe cloud, ready to be discovered as soon as any of us had a drama.
Anna took his wheelie and rested it against the cloakroom door. He wasn’t staying.
I went and shook his hand. ‘Tresillian sorted?’
He nodded. ‘It all worked.’ He glanced at Lily as she made the brews. ‘Our Moldovan friend came on board.’
Lily came out of the kitchen area. She walked up to him with a smile and an outstretched hand. ‘Hello, my name is Lilian. Nick says you’re staying in the city for a couple of days?’
Jules looked a bit uncomfortable. ‘Yes, I’ve got something I want to talk to Nick and Anna about.’
Lily got it. ‘I’ve made the tea. It’s British, not Russian.’ She turned to Anna. ‘OK if I go?’ She’d made some friends in the building.
The tea was weak and shit. I turned on the Nespresso machine. Julian and I sat at the black marble breakfast bar but Anna remained standing. She tapped Jules’s hand. ‘What is it you’ve come to talk to us about?’
I dropped a capsule into the machine and sparked it up.
‘I’ve resigned.’
Anna’s jaw dropped.
‘A month ago.’ Jules turned to me. ‘Remember what you said about a carwash?’
I pushed him a brew. Things went quiet for a while. I didn’t know what to say.
Anna tugged her cigarettes out of her jeans. I pointed to the balcony. There’s no smoke without fire.
Andy McNab joined the infantry as a boy soldier. In 1984 he was ‘badged’ as a member of 22 SAS Regiment and was involved in both covert and overt special operations worldwide. During the Gulf War he commanded Bravo Two Zero, a patrol that, in the words of his commanding officer, ‘will remain in regimental history for ever’. Awarded both the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) and Military Medal (MM) during his military career, McNab was the British Army’s most highly decorated serving soldier when he finally left the SAS in February 1993. He wrote about his experiences in three phenomenal bestsellers: Bravo Two Zero, Immediate Action and Seven Troop.
He is the author of the bestselling Nick Stone thrillers. Besides his writing work, he lectures to security and intelligence agencies in both the USA and UK. He is a patron of the Help for Heroes campaign.
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