London Alert (9780956072344)
London Alert is written as an 'entertainment' in the sense that Graham Greene used the term to describe his fun to read novels with serious underlying content. Starting from a masculine perspective and ending with a feminine twist, this is the story of a boy, called Holt, whose parents are killed in a car crash. He later joins a special department of the British secret service as a backroom ideas man whose role is to anticipate what terrorists and the like might try to perpetrate. Partly so that an eye can be kept on him, he is occasionally partnered with 'Miss Innocent' - an agent so angelic looking that colleagues were betting on when she would lose her virginity. Holt immediately fell out with the in-house psychiatrist, a truly nasty piece of work who cannot be fired because he knows so many top peoples' secrets. Holt and Miss Innocent have to take a revealing test at a mock hotel set up by the service before being issued with a 'honeymoon kit' by Q...