Prologue
A black haired man wearing a dark blue suite holding a brown briefcase stepped off of the train and into the Ravenscourt Park station. He looked around casually and then walked over to the newspaper stand. It was a lone metal box that took coins and wasn't much higher than his waist. It had the words "London Globe" in white on a red background. The well dressed man put in two coins and opened the hatch getting a newspaper. He briefly scanned the front page and then folded it in half and tucked it under his arm neatly as he walk off. He saw a bench and made his way to it. People were coming and going from the station. It was evening time which meant most of those people were coming home from work. He sat down on the metal bench setting the briefcase next to him on the ground in an upright fashion and then opened up the newspaper and opened it to the financial section reading it through. After a few minutes a woman who was wearing a dress outfit and also carrying a brown briefcase sat down next to him setting her briefcase next to his. He didn't look up, but instead just kept reading the paper. The brunette looked at her watch and casually looked around and then looked over at the man sitting next to her.
"Excuse me" she said softly. The man pulled the paper down from in front of him and turned his head over to the woman.
"Yes?"
"May I read the Classifieds, I mean if you're not reading them of course" she said smiling. The man looked at his watch then looked back at the woman.
"Tell ya what, just take it. My train is almost here." He responded handing her the paper.
"Thank you" She said taking the paper and opening it up to the classified section. The man reached over to her briefcase and took it. He walked away to the train which had just pulled in and got on board. After a short ride he exited off of Earl's Court and made his way to the Thistle Hotel where he got a one bedroom for a one week stay. When he got up to the room he had a quick look around to make sure everything was in order. He sat the briefcase down on the bed and turned on the TV.
sat down next to the man reading the newspaper. He lifted up a brown tool box and set it next to him. He opened it up and pulled the top tool holder off and peered in at what was underneath examining its contents. He carefully set the top tool holder back and closed the tool box. He set it back down on the floor next to the bed and reached for his pack of cigarettes on the night stand. He pulled one out and lit it. Then went over to the TV and grabbed the remote that was sitting on top of it turning on the TV with the press of a button. He walked back over to the bed and tossed the remote onto it. The lightly built man kneeled down at the base of the bed and reached underneath it pulling back a brown leather briefcase. He sat on the floor and opened it up. There was numerous news paper clippings inside underneath which was a map of London and surrounding locales and underneath the map was a green spiral notebook. He took all of this out and opened the map up. Small red circles with numbers inside them were on different areas of the map. He then moved the briefcase to his side and laid the map out in front of him. He leaned over slightly closely studying the map. He then straightened up and put the briefcase back in front of him laying it on the map. He then took out the green notebook and began reading through it. There was a long list of people's names with numbers written out to the side of them on the first and second pages. The third page had addresses and telephone numbers.
Chapter 1
A Stranger at Dinner Time