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Название книги: Champions Of The Gods
Автор(ы): Jeffrey Lord
Жанр: Боевая фантастика
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Champions-Of-The-Gods-154318.html
Chapter One
The man called J stood in the autumn rain at the Tower of London and waited for Richard Blade. A gray, wet, dismal day in London always made him feel particularly old. When he was waiting on a day when Richard would be taking a trip into Dimension X, he felt even older.
J's erect bearing and dignified manner hid a good part of his age from the casual observer. They didn't conceal it from himself. He was aware of every one of his years, more than forty of them devoted to a by-now legendary career in espionage. He had begun it behind German lines during the First World War. Like all spies who lived long enough, he was ending his career behind a desk, watching younger men go out to carry out his orders or die trying. The strain resulting from this could be concealed like his age, from casual observers, but not from himself.
Watching Richard Blade go out into the unknown was the greatest strain of all. J did not love any of the others like the son he'd never
Название книги: Champions Of The Gods
Автор(ы): Jeffrey Lord
Жанр: Боевая фантастика
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Champions-Of-The-Gods-154318.html
Chapter One
The man called J stood in the autumn rain at the Tower of London and waited for Richard Blade. A gray, wet, dismal day in London always made him feel particularly old. When he was waiting on a day when Richard would be taking a trip into Dimension X, he felt even older.
J's erect bearing and dignified manner hid a good part of his age from the casual observer. They didn't conceal it from himself. He was aware of every one of his years, more than forty of them devoted to a by-now legendary career in espionage. He had begun it behind German lines during the First World War. Like all spies who lived long enough, he was ending his career behind a desk, watching younger men go out to carry out his orders or die trying. The strain resulting from this could be concealed like his age, from casual observers, but not from himself.
Watching Richard Blade go out into the unknown was the greatest strain of all. J did not love any of the others like the son he'd never
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