Fall From Grace – Larry Collins

To the rear of the room, she spotted her washing machine. _ A mess steward welcomed them into the officers’ lounge and offered Catherine a mug of coffee from his hot plate. On the mess wall above a set of easy chairs, exactly as Jeanine had described them, was a line of seven wooden boxes, one for — each of the battery’s officers. She opened her bundle of sewing — and began to distribute its contents into the boxes, as she did, ~ taking out from each one the clump of soiled laundry waiting for her.

Behind her, she heard two of her clients entering the – room for a cup of coffee. When she turned to pick up a fresh package, she glimpsed one of them out of the corner of her © eye. There was something vaguely familiar about his dark ; features, a disturbing suggestion that she had seen him somewhere before.

Fitting the laundry into its box, she knew — he was staring at her, asking himself the same puzzled question she was asking herself. . ‘Mademoiselle?’ Catherine turned. For the first time since she had renied | the battery she was sickeningly aware of where she was. The _ German was smiling. ‘I trust our laundry isn’t as heavy as your — suitcase was on the train up to Paris. I’ve been looking for you ~ in the Trois Suisses for days and all the time you were right here!’

Paris Half an hour after his rendezvous with Strémelburg, Paul was _ at the telephone booth of the Café Sporting at the Porte — Maillot. He gave the telephone operator, a great gargoyle of a woman, his own telephone number and went into her phone al booth. While his phone rang unanswered, he opened the telephone book on the ledge below the phone to page 75 and set his message inside. It was brief. It simply confirmed, as London had requested, that Operation Foxtrot was on for the next night.

When he hung up, the radio operator who’d been sitting in the café upstairs was waiting his turn to use the phone. Without acknowledging him, Paul walked up the stairs, on to the street and down into the métro station around the corner from the café.

Larry Collins was born in West Hartford, Connecticut. After graduating from the Loomis School and Yale University, he served in the US Army at SHAPE outside Paris, where he met Dominique Lapierre. Collins later became a journalist with United Press International in Paris, Rome and the Middle East, where he joined Newsweek as its Middle East correspondent in 1958.

_ In April 1961, he returned to Paris-as the Newsweek Bureau Chief. Later that year he teamed up with Dominique Lapierre on the first of their internationally known bestsellers — Is Paris Burning?, followed by Or I’ll Dress You In Mourning, O Jerusalem!, Freedom at Midnight and The Fifth Horseman.

Larry Collins and his wife divide their time-between England, France and the USA. “UBecsitomn a “Midnight Or P’ll Dress You in aries s Is Paris Burning? — The Fifth Folch ay ie 4 * I « % > + , * ; 2 Z . : y eo < = , ; : . 3 os ; , ~ . a ~ a& 5 - < = LARRY COLLINS)" z rs ae “a Fall From Grace GRAFTON BOOKS Seek ___ ADivision of the Collins Publishing Group be LONDON GLASCOW TORONTO SYDNEY AUCKLAND Grafton Books A Division of the Collins Publishing Group 8 Grafton Street, London W1X 3LA Published by Grafton Books 1986 First published in Great Britain by - Granada Publishing 1985 Copyright © Larry Collins 1985 ISBN 0-586-05681-5 Printed and bound in Great Britain by Collins, Glasgow Set in Goudy All rights reserved.

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TOP SECRET | B68932 Copy No. 10 CCS 459/3 3 December 1946 Combined Chiefs of Staff: Cover and Deception- ~ Classification Refs: a) CCS 2 81/5 b) CCS 2 81/4 Information on all aspects of strategic cover and deception is hereby classified ‘TOP SECRET’ on a permanent basis.

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