Mike Dixon

CHAPTER 12
Gloom
hile David and Tim were in the pub, Humphrey
W was in the university library, thumbing through
the positions vacant advertisements in the national news
-papers. He hated the prospect of going back to academ-
ia but there was no choice. He‟d blown his chances of
getting a job with the armed forces or any of the intelli-
gence organizations showing interest in him. Cecil Sparrow‟s
men had found the cache of documents he had
copied as source material for the books and articles he
was writing. He felt humiliated and stupid. Many of the
papers had high-security classifications. To put it bluntly,
he was a high-security risk. The people he wanted to
work for would avoid him like the plague when they
found out what he had been doing. His eyes alighted on
an advertisement for a lecturer in Chinese. He copied out
the details. The position didn‟t appeal to him but he had
a daughter to support and a bank account that was
deeply in the red.
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