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Colin Evans smiled at the woman he was replacing.
“I have big shoes to fill.”
Mrs Jones paused from where she was lifting down something from her office wall.
“The Department is in safe hands. You’ll be fine.”
Evans reached up to help her lift down the piece of grey metal with three bullet holes in it.
“I always forgot to ask. What is this thing?”
Mrs Jones smiled. “That’s a lesson I learned when I took over from Alan Blunt. The truth is always dangerous in our line of work but lies are a whole magnitude more dangerous still.”