Название: Cut to the Chase
Автор: Ray CW Scott
Издательство: Ingram
Жанр: Политические детективы
isbn: 9781742984056
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Finally Wallace rang an old school friend named Ben Wakefield, they had been at school together in Australia and also members of the same cricket and football clubs, before Ben’s English parents had decided they didn’t like Australia and dragged Ben and his sister Elizabeth back with them despite their protests. Wallace usually contacted him when he was in England, and they still exchanged Christmas cards and e-mail messages. Ben was overjoyed to hear from Wallace, and they left the dates open.
‘Anytime, old son,’ Ben said. ‘I’ll be here. Just give me a call when you get here.’
Wallace had not previously heard of Woodersons Bank but gathered that it was one of the numerous merchant banks that frequented the city whose names were bandied around whenever there was a take-over battle in progress. The occasion was their 150th anniversary so Wallace adapted the address that he had already designed for Barclays and it went down surprisingly well. As he sat down with the applause still ringing in his ears he felt the satisfaction of a job well done.
After the dinner was over and everyone congregated in groups for general chats, he was surrounded by many who wished to offer their congratulations and to have a brief chat. One of them was a man who looked to be in his early thirties, with piercing blue eyes and a shock of fair curly hair. He hovered around until the last admirer had shaken Wallace’s hand and then he bored in.
‘G’day,’ he said, instantly stamping himself as an Australian. ‘Well done. My name is Dave McKay.’
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