Sowerbutt's Journey

The journey across Spain from Alicante in the government Fiat Ardita had been slow and uncomfortable. Despite the fighting ending more than 10 years earlier, the roads were still potholed and rutted, houses ruined and much of the countryside devastated. Fields pitted with shell craters, trenches hacked across prime land, rural tracks mined.
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Sowerbutt's Family

Generalissimo Franco walked heavily across the ornate reception room, put his hands on Sowerbutt’s shoulders and kissed both his cheeks. “Jimmy,” the man, dressed in the immaculate uniform of a Captain-General, said, “it is very good to see you again. You must always call me Paco, you are family. Many terrible things happened during the years of fighting, but I will carry the loss of my beloved goddaughter, Kasandra, in my heart forever. You were too generous to the scum who murdered our poor girl. I would have crucified him and left him as carrion."

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Sowerbutt's Soldiers

Four experienced members of the SAS, on special detachment, were infiltrated into the prison several years after it opened; their orders to break out - using non-lethal force as necessary. After several weeks, they were forced to admit defeat and were returned to their unit.
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Sowerbutt's File

The file’s former occupants, including the vital index page, were separately stamped with the classification “Never To Be Released”, repeatedly checked, placed in an acid-free archival storage box and driven under close escort some miles from Kew to a tightly-guarded anonymous storage facility, designated under the Official Secrets Act of 1989.
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Sowerbutt's Archivists

The weeders, as a small section of high security-clearance Home Office archivists are known, worked overtime to replace the contents of the unassuming file with some typed foolscap sheets about wartime public morale and political attitudes, compiled by Cooper’s Snoopers.
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Sowerbutt's Finger

A chubby finger in a Horse Guards office trembled on its way down the list followed by a spectacular explosion. The well-furnished suite was more familiar with erudite conversations about matters of state and the acquisition of KCBs than shrieks of anger over ancient East End road accidents.
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Sowerbutt's Friends

Turning to Sowerbutt, Franco said: “The Brigadier and I are old friends. What is it, 15 years or so? He organised the aeroplane that brought me back from exile to Tetuán in Morocco for the start of our crusade. You know each other, it pleases me that my friends have worked together."
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