Honour Among Thieves

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Author: Jeffrey Archer
Tags: Fiction, General, Espionage, English Fiction
university and bored by the social
life, Scott began to fill his hours by attending courses on everything from the
Islamic religions to the history of the Middle East. When three years later the
university offered him the Chair of American Law, he knew it was time to return
to the United States.
    A
letter from the Dean of the Law Faculty at Georgetown suggested he should apply
for a vacant professorship at Yale. He wrote the following day and packed his
bags when he received their reply.
    Once
he had taken up his new post, whenever he was asked the casual question, ‘What
do your parents do?’ he would simply reply, ‘They’re both dead and I’m an only
child.’ There was a certain type of girl who delighted in this knowledge – they
assumed he would need mothering. Several of them entered his bed, but none of
them became part of his life.
    But
he hid nothing from the people he was summoned to see twelve times a year. They
couldn’t tolerate deception of any kind, and were highly suspicious of his real
motives when they learned of his father’s criminal record. He told them simply
that he wished to make amends for his father’s disgrace, and refused to discuss
the subject any further.
    At
first they didn’t believe him. After a time they took him on his own terms, but
it was still to be years before they trusted him with any classified
information. It was when he started coming up with solutions for problems in
the Middle East that the computer couldn’t handle that they began to stop doubting
his motives. When the Clinton Administration was sworn in, the new team
welcomed Scott’s particular expertise.
    Twice
recently he had penetrated the State Department itself to advise Warren
Christopher. He had been amused to see Mr Christopher suggest on the
early-evening news a solution to the problem of sanctions-busting by Saddam
that he had put to him earlier that afternoon.
    The
car turned off Route 123 and drew to a halt outside a pair of massive steel
gates. A guard came out to check on the passenger. Although the two men had
seen each other regularly over the past nine years, the guard still asked to
see his credentials.
    ‘Welcome
back, Professor,’ the uniformed man finally offered before saluting.
    The
driver proceeded down the road and stopped outside an anonymous office block.
The passenger climbed out of the car and entered the building through a
turnstile. His papers were checked once again, followed by another salute. He
walked down a long corridor with cream walls until he reached an unmarked oak
door. He gave a gentle knock and entered before waiting for a reply.
    A
secretary was sitting behind a desk on the far side of the room. She looked up
and smiled. ‘Go right in, Professor Bradley, the Deputy Director is expecting
you.’
    Columbus
School for Girls, Columbus, Ohio, is one of those establishments that prides
itself on discipline and scholarship, in that order. The headmistress would
often explain to parents that it was impossible to have the second without the
first.
    Breaking
school rules could, in the headmistress’s opinion, only be considered in rare
circumstances. The request that she had just received fell into such a
category.
    That
night, the graduating class of ‘93 was to be addressed by one of Columbus’s
favourite sons, T. Hamilton McKenzie, Dean of the Medical School at Ohio State
University. His Nobel Prize for Medicine had been awarded for the advances he
had made in the field of plastic and reconstructive surgery. T. Hamilton
McKenzie’s work on war veterans from Vietnam and the Gulf had been chronicled
from coast to coast, and there were men in every city who, thanks to his
genius, had been able to return to normal lives. Some lesser mortals who had
trained under the Nobel Laureate used their skills to help women of a certain
age appear more beautiful than their maker had originally intended. The
headmistress of Columbus felt confident that the girls would only be
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