Название: Puppet on a Chain
Автор: Alistair MacLean
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Ужасы и Мистика
isbn: 9780007289370
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‘I come all the way from Paris to go to a naughty night-club?’ Belinda was back at being amused again. ‘Why?’
‘I’ll tell you why. I’ll tell you some things about nightclubs you don’t know. I’ll tell you why we’re here. In fact,’ I said expansively, ‘I’ll tell you everything.’ By ‘everything’ I meant everything I thought they needed to know, not everything there was to tell: the differences were considerable. Belinda looked at me with anticipation. Maggie with a wearily affectionate scepticism, but then Maggie knew me. ‘But first, some Scotch.’
‘We have no Scotch, Major.’ Maggie had a very puritanical side to her at times.
‘Not even au fait with the basic principles of intelligence. You must learn to read the right books.’ I nodded to Belinda. The phone. Get some. Even the managerial classes must relax occasionally.’
Belinda stood up, smoothing down her dark dress and looking at me with a sort of puzzled disfavour. She said slowly: ‘When you spoke about your friend in the mortuary I watched and you showed nothing. He’s still there and now you are – what is the word – flippant. Relaxing, you say. How can you do this?’
‘Practice. And a siphon of soda.’
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