Book 2

Afghanistan 041135L February 2018 – 45,000 feet external temperature -56.7 °C The Boeing RC 135 Rivet Joint of the 45th Reconnaissance Squadron, was just over two-and-a-half hours into its patrol. It had taken off from [more…]

Fallout Phillips came down to breakfast and saw Cécile sitting on her own reading a newspaper. He was bristling with annoyance, “I thought the agreement was I would come and get you and we would [more…]

RAF Northolt and Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, Brussels – 1st and 2nd February 2018 Cécile was bored and full of pent up tension, so she decided to do a few circuits of the running track before dinner. As [more…]

Permanent Joint Headquarters, Northwood, North London – Thursday 1st February 2018 Cécile was driven from RAF High Wycombe with COS Ops, his outer office bag carrier and an MT Driver. They left the A40 before [more…]

RAF Brize Norton Wednesday 17th January 2018 The RAF Regiment Sergeant was waiting for Wing Commander Hammond in the station’s Ground Defence Training Section at 08:30. He was expecting a dried-up and wizened old battle-axe [more…]

Cécile passed the language course with considerable effort on her part. The history and culture aspect she found to be relatively easy and she did surprisingly well in written Arabic, but she struggled on the [more…]

London, Sunday 14th January 2018 – Spooks It had been a short walk from Vauxhall Cross, across Lambeth Bridge and then north to the Costa Coffee house just off Trafalgar Square. As it was a [more…]

Headquarters Air Command RAF High Wycombe, January 2018 The two of them met in the conference room of A3 Operations, in one of the blocks above ground. It was a secure room that was regularly [more…]