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hardman turned burger vendor, Andy McNobb... Burger Two Zero - Episode 2
Target in sight.
I knew there was something wrong about
him the minute he walked in: suit, tie, briefcase...... Don't see his type in here too
often. We're more your labourer, welder, unemployed, but he's real Officer class.
Intuition, that's the key. You just feel
it. Smell it.
He's a mole.
A spy - probably working for
Ivan........ Ivan Jaswieski, the red-under-the-bed who's got the sandwich shop by the bus
concourse. If he has his way there'll be a commie delicatessen on every street corner, the
Great British burger will be crushed beneath the heel of a Russkie jackboot and we'll all
be eating beetroot poppyknots until kingdom come. Not this time, Babooshka.
The target approaches the counter.
I lock him in an icy gaze, and
immediately his guard drops. Blurts out something about ciabattas. What a giveaway.
Ciabattas? In a burger bar? It's like expecting to find a rack of AT/2-19s in a W0014
substation, if you know what I mean. As I turn to point out the menu on the wall behind
me, I catch glimpse of his hand snaking out across the Formica and, like a panther in an
apron, I instinctively pounce....
The police let me out a few hours later.
They knew I was Military, gave me respect. If I was a civvie they'd have thrown away the
key. With me though, they just took me down the station, chucked me in a cell, gave me a
bit of a kicking and issued me with a caution. Easy enough mistake for anyone to make. In
the heat of the moment I thought he was going for a gun. Turns out he was actually going
for a bun, but that's not my problem. It's a hard game for hard men. I don't need to be
able to spell as well.......
Next Week: STATE OF EMERGENCY! - There's
a bee in the kitchen!
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