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The Reluctant Agent<br />

A Compelling Story of Espionage<br />

to the time of the meeting. There was nothing he could resolve, but that didn't<br />

prevent it from tormenting his mind.<br />

Billy was waiting in his car when Will arrived. It was a pleasant evening so they<br />

didn't go into the office but discussed the matter in the car. There was a perfectly<br />

simple explanation for what was happening and things were wrapped up in a<br />

matter of minutes. Nevertheless, the organization had succeeded in putting a glitch<br />

into what had turned out to be a happy event for him.<br />

Mark also graduated and went to South Africa for a year and then came back<br />

to England and also completed a Masters Degree. After getting married he and his<br />

wife Linda followed in Louise and Brent's footsteps, also emigrating to Canada.<br />

The families over there soon increased to four grandchildren.<br />

Will and Dorothy visited Canada on several occasions to see them all. With<br />

each and every visit the experience of relief being away from the U.K. organization<br />

became more profound and Will knew that he would first have to extradite himself<br />

from the company and then move to Canada to join up once again with the family.<br />

His efforts to leave the company however, provoked a severe reaction. He<br />

was not contracted to the company and the other directors were convinced that<br />

Will would set up a company and take business away from them. To try and take<br />

the pressure off he foolishly entered into a one year arrangement before leaving,<br />

thinking it was the moral thing to do. It turned into a year of torment.<br />

Finally after leaving, the company launched a legal onslaught blaming him for<br />

everything that was wrong with the company, including the charge of financial<br />

mismanagement. It took months before the assortment of legal accusations<br />

eventually reduced themselves to nothing, and things looked as though they were<br />

gradually levelling out to enable him to start processing his plans for the future<br />

when a bombshell arrived in the form of another legal letter. The company had<br />

obviously been holding it back to use as a trump card, if everything else failed.<br />

It basically stated that government classified documents, only accessible by the<br />

directors, were missing from the files, and the wording left in no doubt that he was<br />

being accused of taking them. To Will the end of the world had arrived.<br />

The company knew nothing of his activities with the organization, but should<br />

the two ever be linked by people like Air Force intelligence his goose would be<br />

cooked.<br />

The days leading up to the meeting with his lawyer were devastating. He was<br />

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