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By Adam Hall

In Bangkok on task, Quiller needs to assassinate a customer so very important he's simply known as ""The Person,"" yet earlier than he can, he realizes that he's purely the bait in an complex scheme. Reprint. NYT.

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There are plenty of others but they’re all chancy. ’ I sat watching him struggle. Certainly there was a lot to this operation that would put the fear of Christ into a seasoned agent - the whole set-up was pivoted on a needle point. But it had advantages, big ones, bigger than any of the other plans could give us. He wanted to launch it; he would give a great deal to see it run; he was an intelligence director of long experience and this thing excited him, fascinated him. It was sensitive and it was elegant.

Those nearest me were well-defined, identifiable. The others, gathered behind them in the deeper gloom, were the hosts of the unknown. I must needs take comfort in the ancient lore of my trade. Fear springs from imagination and without imagination we cannot survive. Loman hadn’t answered me. It didn’t matter.

He showed twice again before noon and 1 took a further ten, speeds from one-half to one-thirtieth, same f/stops. The haze was worse now as the heat mounted in the street so I left it at that and went down to the shop and spent half an hour in the darkroom. Even the wet negs looked promising, three of the frames being sharp. It was worth staying on: I wouldn’t get better than these today because of the haze. In two hours the sharpest blow-ups were hanging up to dry. Of the sixteen essays five were successful and one perfect: a head-and-shoulders pose framed in the oriel; even the shape of the smoked glasses was recognizable - rather flat at the top with the sides tapering downward, a metal nosepiece almost level with the top of the lenses.

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