The Bear's Tears

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Apart from my habitual thanks to my wife for her editing of this, my longest novel to date, I wish to especially thank Peter Matthews for his invaluable assistance with the theft of information from the KGB's central computer which appears in Part Three of the book. Any errors, distortion or license of method or terminology are my responsibility, not his.

Quick—

Remember what they told you, the front cover of the file first. A proper sense of occasion, and the laying out of your wares…

Camera joggle. Remember that. You must be in a hurry, and nervous… It must all be slightly out of focus, especially at the beginning.

The electronic flash flared onto the paper he could see through the lens, a small sunburst but much whiter than sunlight. Teardrop, the file proclaimed in the Cyrillic alphabet. The other words and reference numbers signified its importance, and the fact that it was consigned for immediate incineration, its contents having been transferred to tape and stored in Moscow Centre's principal security computer.

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