But when the door opened, it was Ding Jiahui who walked in. The arrangement was that a senior government official from each side would sign the preliminary agreement in Oslo. The two presidents would then simultaneously announce the deal in public at an agreed time, and ...
Ed Grey was on the phone to a client in Paris, feet up on his desk, gazing out the window at the office block opposite. Tony Evangelou opened his door and looked in. Ed turned and shooed him away. Tony pointed to one of the screens on Ed’s wall. Ed looked. The sound was muted, but a headline on t...
A vote held within hours of a major crisis breaking, without enough time for anyone to sit back and ask what it really meant, how serious it really was, how bad it was going to get. An election in the grip of panic. The headlines that morning had been unbelievable. Markets were falling. The press...
Andrei received approaches from the FBI and even more shadowy agencies in the intelligence community on the mistaken assumption that his cooperation after the bombing meant that he would be keen to cooperate in other, less overt ways. There was talk of ‘back doors’ and ‘mass data transfers’. Andr...