Man at War – Excerpt No. 178

He handed the pliers back and said, “Anything to report?”

“Just an increase in radio traffic from the German lines,” Heart said. “Headquarters have the area on alert just in case.”

That in itself was telling and a reasonable precaution. While he could instruct Heart to ignore the increased activity, Marc wanted his involvement to remain a secret. I’m sure French intelligence will catch wind of it and they’ll send Aelred for a visit.

While already not forward to it, the fact that Murphy was in his office was more concerning. It did not take much detective work to figure out where Marc was last night. Even Lestrade would have found his man by now.

a surreal and vibrant cinematic photo of Inspector Lestrade from Sherlock Holmes fame investigating the site of a murdered British Soldier in a World War I trench, dressed in a long brown trench coat and wearing a fedora, with a serious expression on his pale face and a magnifying glass in his hand, set against a dark and misty backdrop of a war-torn landscape just before dawn in 1915, with soft golden light peeking through the clouds, surreal photography, photorealistic, film grain, and subtle colors of blue and gray dominating the scene, with hints of warm beige and brown from the trench and Lestrade's clothing.

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