A year or two back, still working on Marine intelligence and having as one of his targets the assembly of a team of coast-watchers for the Chinese ports of Wenchow and Amoy, Guillam discovered to his amazement that there were actually Chinese stay-behind agents living in those very towns, recruited by Bill Haydon in the course of some forgotten wartime exploit, rigged out with cached radios and equipment, with whom contact might be made.

a malady that burns and rankles inward

As one of the results of these systems we have agrarian rule in nearly all the federated states of Germany.

Prosecutorial misconduct can lead to the lawyer's disbarment.