The Devil's Home on Leave (Factory 2) (27 page)

After a moment, though, his face darkened and he said: ‘I suppose no one was being deliberate over that name, were they?’

‘Well, as a matter of fact,’ I said, ‘yes, I was. I thought it was about time somebody else cracked a joke around here.’

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The unnamed Sergeant stands up to both mobsters and his superiors while engaged in a harrowing game of cat-and-mouse with a psychopath who seems to have ties to the highest levels of the British government.

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