Dossier Le Chiffre
An old dog | un vieux os
“It’s been quite a… a week. Agents dropping like flies, networks being compromised… feels more like a mob war than politics if I’m bein’ honest. their man Kruschie’s really an ‘out with the old, in with the new’ kinda guy, huh?”
“If that man Cipher’s what they consider ‘new’ then I’m Mae West.”
“Cipher?”
“Cipher, the Gambler, Aspidov, baron such-and-such, whatever name you wanna call him. He’s been around for a while. Red Army man, got awarded ‘hero of the Soviet Union’... and most miraculously, survived to tell the tale. He’s the one behind the Berlin purges.”
“Oh jeez, what they did to Vassiliy. That’s him?”
“We think so, yeah. He’s also linked to other clean ups but they weren’t as… like that.”
“You think he was sending a message?”
“Oh brother, if he was, did we get it.”