Bomb Grade

Brian Freemantle
prologue

The purpose was to provide as forceful a warning as possible to any other Russian or supposed middleman who thought it was easy to cheat, so the man who’d tried this time had been horrendously tortured throughout the night.

First they had cut out his tongue, to quieten his screams. His testicles formed the gag, completed by his lips being sewn together. The body, naked to show the mutilations, was cast adrift in a skiff on Berlin’s Wannsee Lake. It was mid-afternoon before a curious rower came close enough to discover it. And went insanely hysterical.