Humming to herself she went into the kitchen to heat up the soup for Harry.
On the London-bound airliner Andrei Maisky leaned across the British Embassy doctor and prodded Richard Mortimer. ‘Perhaps you can tell me something about London,’ he said. ‘I am very much looking forward to living there and learning all about your building programme.’
‘I don’t know anything about London,’ Mortimer said. ‘And I don’t know anything about Moscow.’
‘Ah, there I can help you,’ Andrei Maisky said.
The doctor put a hand on his arm. ‘Not now,’ he said. ‘There’s a good chap.’
In the diplomatic compound at Kutuzovsky children pulled back their bedroom curtains and laughed when they saw the snow flakes touching the windows. Some children from Africa and South America had never seen snow before. They wanted to go out and feel it immediately but their parents said there would be plenty of time for that.
Luke Randall stamped the snow from his feet and went into his apartment. Anna had gone home but the living-room light was on. He found Michele sitting on the sofa sipping a cup of tea.
She smiled at him hesitantly. ‘I have been here a long time,’ she said. ‘Anna let me in before she left.’
He looked at her without speaking.
She spoke quickly and breathlessly. ‘I have told them I am not going to Bonn,’ she said. ‘I have volunteered to stay here in Moscow for another term. They say they think it will be all right.’ She looked suddenly frightened. ‘That is what you want, isn’t it, Luke?’
He held out his arms to her.
The snow was thickening now. But in the morning it would thaw. Thus it would continue for a few days. Then it would settle without thawing. The prophets forecast a long hard winter; and they were always right.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Derek Lambert was born in 1929. He served in the RAF for two and a half years as a medical orderly and then worked as a journalist on local newspapers, the Daily Mirror and the Daily Express. He was the author of twenty-six books, including The Yermakov Transfer, Touch the Lion’s Paw (filmed with Burt Reynolds as Rough Cut) and The Judas Code. He spent the later years of his life in Spain, where he died in 2001 at the age of 71.
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FICTION
Angels in the Snow
The Kites of War
For Infamous Conduct
Grand Slam
The Red House
The Yermakov Transfer
Touch the Lion's Paw
The Great Land
The Saint Peter's Plot
The Memory Man
I, Said the Spy
Trance
The Red Dove
The Judas Code
The Golden Express
The Man Who Was Saturday
Vendetta
Chase
Triad
The Night and the City
The Gate and the Sun
The Banya
Horrorscope
Diamond Express
The Killing House
NON-FICTION
The Sheltered Days
Don't Quote Me But
And I Quote
Unquote
Just Like the Blitz
Spanish Lessons
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