The Marylebone Drop: A Novella

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Perhaps Solomon’s report will give him an opportunity to do something noteworthy. Or perhaps, as he has before, Bachelor will simply screw it up. Sinister Spy Agency: The BND. Framing Wicinski for possession of child porn is pretty hard to morally justify.

The Marylebone Drop: A Novella (Slough House) by - Biblio The Marylebone Drop: A Novella (Slough House) by - Biblio

The Alleged Boss: Pynne is Hannah’s MI5 handler and he thinks he's in charge, but she’s easily manipulating him and many of the decisions are actually hers. All Abusers Are Male: Averted. Hannah requests a move from the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills because her manager’s behaviour (late night phone calls, gifts, requests for private meetings) is making her uncomfortable. Nash immediately assumes the manager in a man, Pynne corrects him. And Hannah is lying about all of this anyway, trying to get a role that’s more useful to her BND handlers. Bachelor's a barely competent MI5 agent who’s slowly circling the drain. He’s facing financial ruin, has lost his home and the only notable success of his career - an operation that inserted a Double Agent into Germany's secret service, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) - was reassigned to someone more capable. Loose Lips: Hannah’s inexperienced MI5 handler, Richard Pynne, tells her that someone’s run a search on her BND handler, Peter Kahlmann. And, later, he tells her who it was. Which allows the BND to discredit Wicinski via a Frame-Up.Double Agent: MI5 is running Hannah Weiss as a double agent in the BND. Or at least they think they are. The Bad Guy Wins: By the end of the story Solomon’s dead, Alec Wicinski’s been framed for possession of child-porn and MI5 has moved Hannah Weiss to the Brexit office, still unaware that she’s a BND triple agent. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Peter Kahlmann (who's actually just a cover identity for Martin Kreutzmer) is Weiss’s BND handler, who’s far more competent than Pynne or Bachelor. Forgotten the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Visit BookSleuth So when he sees an old-school drop take place in a favourite Marylebone restaurant, he immediately recognises it for what it is. He admires the tradecraft. And he reports it to his MI5 handler, John Bachelor.

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Code Name: Hannah Weiss, MI5’s double agent in the BND, is randomly assigned "Snow White" as her code name. It seems a little too close for comfort. Old spooks carry the memory of tradecraft in their bones, and when Solomon Dortmund sees an envelope being passed from one pair of hands to another in a Marylebone café, he knows he’s witnessed more than an innocent encounter. But in relaying his suspicions to John Bachelor, who babysits retired spies like Solly for MI5, he sets in motion a train of events that will alter lives. As first seen in The List, John Bachelor is at the least important end of the scale. He looks after "the milk round", elderly foreign assets who’ve retired to the UK. Richard Pynne is the new and inexperienced handler who’s taken on Hannah Weiss, the Double Agent Bachelor recruited at the end of The List.