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Authors: Geoffrey Archer

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Pressed by the opposition to state categorically whether British defence interests had been damaged or not, he declared:

‘This house may rest assured that Her Majesty's Government will preserve the effectiveness of the British independent nuclear deterrent, whatever measures the Soviet Union and her allies may take in an effort to undermine it. It is and will remain a weapon against which there is no effective defence, and whose guaranteed destructive power is the surest way we know to deter any nation in the world from waging war against us.'

Peter lay back at one end of the sofa in the living-room, staring at the ceiling.

‘Does that mean you've just been promised a job for life?' Belinda asked warily.

Peter smoothed back the hair from his forehead. For a long time he just stared at nothing.

‘I don't really know,' he answered eventually.

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Published by Arrow Books in 1988

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Copyright © Geoffrey Archer, 1987

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This novel is a work of fiction. Names and characters are the product of the author's imagination and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental

First published in the United Kingdom in 1987 by Century

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