Sowerbutt and Spaghetti
agreed when they reached the wrecked building that luck was on their side. A
week earlier, a misshapen steel drum had left the premises bound for Belfast
via Liverpool Docks. An IRA contact had paid in cash 25 per
cent of the face value for the contents to finance their bombing
campaign in Northern Ireland. After dropping a few suggestions to his mate, the
Poplar superintendent, Sowerbutt was confident the consignment of forged pound
notes would be traced back to a U-boat off the Irish coast rather than the
Gower farm he had recently visited. With his throat slit, the IRA contact,
still stretched out in the Poplar mortuary despite the influx of Blitz
victims, was no longer in a position to mention Sowerbutt’s
involvement.
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