Dossier Le Chiffre
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‘Back so soon?’
‘I almost got killed!’
‘And?’
‘And what? This was my co-agent! I’d been working together with him for the past year! He! Tried! To! Shoot! Me!’
‘Did you shoot back?’
‘Well, ye-‘
‘And he’s disposed of?’
‘Yes but- He was going to kill me and you knew that!’
‘That generally happens when your cover gets blown. At least it was only him and he’s… no longer a problem.’
‘You knew!’
‘Of course I did. And you dealt with it rather neatly. You even used that tokarev I gave you. I used it in the war, you know.’
‘Why did you - you just let it happen?’
‘It’s all for your own good. It’s, how do you Americans call it? The school of hard knocks.’