Settling Dust

Chapter 5

Getting Dee to dish the dirt on Greg turned out to be cathartic for her and a huge embarrassment for me. It transpired he had only one worry that first night.

‘He was thinking through if you, Connie, were in the industrial espionage game, too. Did you have the room wired up with cameras, ready to blackmail him?

‘I knew my days in Middlesbrough were numbered, and asked Greg for a job. No sooner had I started than I discovered he wasn’t a man one can work for. There came the interview I dreaded. He told me to wire up your room, while you and he were having dinner.

‘Silly me thought I could do the lascivious bit, thought I could sleep my way out of this mess. But going to bed with him was only part of the deal. I also had to find a spy within my old company. It had to be someone senior – not a clerk, as he put it. He suggested you, Connie, as t