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in setting me straight. There isn't space to list them all and some of
them spoke to me in confidence, but I would like to thank Glyn Ford
MEP, Searchlight magazine and the EU Monitoring Centre on Racism and
Xenophobia in Vienna for their insights into the extreme right wing in
Europe. Officers from Scotland Yard's Racial and Violent Crimes Task
Force were also most helpful.

Dr. Wolfgang Preiser of the Department of Virology at Middlesex
Hospital spent many patient hours explaining to me how viruses spread
any errors in this book are very much mine and not his.

The Royal Navy Submarine Service was also extremely generous with its
time. I am particularly grateful to Commander Jeff Tall, Curator of
the RN Submarine Museum at Gosport and to Lt.-Commander Mike Walhker,
First Lieutenant of HMS Turbulent, whose captain and crew looked after
me so warmly and so informatively when I was their guest on a submerged
passage to the Mediterranean.

Finally I should acknowledge the colourful insight into the murky world
of arms smuggling in Africa which was given to me by someone who will
remain nameless. Subsequent to our conversations, he was tried for the
murder of his girlfriend and sentenced to life imprisonment.

ONE

Zambia

Tuesday, 25 August 1998

THE ENGLISHMAN SWITCHED off the engine of the hired car. The emptiness
of the parking area in front of the game lodge was broken by a handful
of four-wheel-drives. Beyond and above the lattice of trees ringing
this small country club a few miles outside Kitwe, the African sky was
purple with the start of a still night. Cicadas tickled themselves in
the trees. Under the bonnet of his rented Toyota something clinked as
it cooled.

The last time he'd been in Africa the job had been dirty and it was
dirty again. The same muck as before.

"Clearing up' London had called it.

"You were in at the start, old son. Only proper you should be there at
the end."

By rights it was a job for an in-house man, someone under diplomatic
cover, but they'd sent him because he was deniable. And because the
matter was personal if the man he'd come to see were to talk and was
believed, it would be his head on the block as much as the Service's,
his career at an end.