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“It is you who saved my life,” George whispered in her ear.
“How do you figure that?”
“Without you, my heart would never have known what it was missing.”
“Perhaps it was your father, George Senior, who saved us both.”
George still couldn’t believe that. Somehow Marta had won Father over just as she had conquered himself. (France 2. Britain 0. He really must get back in the game.)
He held her hand tightly as they crossed the carpark and joined the loose queue of people heading into “The Doughnut.” The circular Government Communications Headquarters was indeed shaped like the massive American doughnut lying on its side. He was going to work inside an American idiom.
The agency Father had never spoken of in all of his years was Five Eyes. It was an intelligence sharing organization t
