Word: cranmer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Approaching 50, Tim Cranmer tends a fine old house and vineyard in Somerset bequeathed to him by a wealthy uncle. His retirement is not of his own choosing. After a long stint in British intelligence, coinciding with some of the iciest years of the cold war, he has been bounced by his new boss as unsuited for the new world order: "I mean twenty-five years do rather shape the mind, don't they? I'd have thought you'd be far better off agreeing you'd served your stint, and time to find pastures new." Whatever disappointment Tim feels...
Suddenly, Tim's comfortable country life is shattered. Emma withdraws from his love and his house at about the same time that Larry disappears. The inquiring police take a cheeky tone with him: "Yes, well, your ... friend has gone a bit missing, to tell you the truth, Mr. Cranmer, sir." And then Tim is called back to his former office to be grilled and told something astonishing: Larry and his last KGB contact have somehow stolen some L37 million from the Russian government. His ex-bosses think the high-living Tim may have shared in the booty. They demand...