Thursday, November 11, 2021

Stealthy contact

    She heard: "007? M speaking." And she giggled, drawing around her the loose silk ties of her bed jacket. "Our telephones may be tapped, so we will conduct this converation entirely in Swahili. Get," Simon's voice said, "on a slow boat to China. A Lithuanian deckhand will molest you at exactly four-thirty-three P.M."    

    Linette said: "You don't think we really are being trapped, do you?"

    "We? You and I? What importance do we have? Two young lovers having breakfast together a mile away from one another. You are having breakfast, aren't you? Or do you always sound as if you're chewing something before you put in your store teeth?"

(from How To Steal A Million, by Michael Sinclair)

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