In which novel...
crawfordboon1
Posts: 3MI6 Agent
Hi everyone
Hoping if someone can help me out. Yesterday I had a flashback from a novel I read a few months ago. Can't remember the novel, but one particular scene stuck in my head. Now I can't remember where I read it!
The setting is the Secret Service or some similar foreign organisation. One of the protagonists needs to identify a suspect - I think he just has either a photo or a name /partial name to go on. He is able to do this because in the organisation there is an elderly lady with a phenomenal photographic memory, who can look at a picture of someone or see their name and remember exactly who they are and where they appear in the files. The protagonist then uses this to carry on chasing the suspect.
I have a feeling this was a Bond novel but I'm not sure. Could also have been a Frederick Forsythe like Fourth Protocol or Day of the Jackal. Certainly espionage was the background to the plot!
Can anyone help??
Hoping if someone can help me out. Yesterday I had a flashback from a novel I read a few months ago. Can't remember the novel, but one particular scene stuck in my head. Now I can't remember where I read it!
The setting is the Secret Service or some similar foreign organisation. One of the protagonists needs to identify a suspect - I think he just has either a photo or a name /partial name to go on. He is able to do this because in the organisation there is an elderly lady with a phenomenal photographic memory, who can look at a picture of someone or see their name and remember exactly who they are and where they appear in the files. The protagonist then uses this to carry on chasing the suspect.
I have a feeling this was a Bond novel but I'm not sure. Could also have been a Frederick Forsythe like Fourth Protocol or Day of the Jackal. Certainly espionage was the background to the plot!
Can anyone help??
Comments
Was it the ODESSA File?
~ Casino Royale, Ian Fleming
Anyway, it certainly wasn't Bond.
Wilde
(My member name is Hitch but I can't get a response from AJB, hence the new name. Grrr.)
Oh yes, would be possible. Can't really say for sure, it's close to twenty years since I've read Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy the last time. Could also be Honourable Schoolboy or Smiley's People, I think she's in all three of them.
Wilde