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== Stuff from the book to eventually put in the article or into the [[Colonel Charles Russell]] article ==
== Stuff from the book to eventually put in the article or into the [[Colonel Charles Russell]] article ==


Russell has said he will retire in six months. No one in his department really qualified to succeed him. the Minister, Palliser, says that Russell "was something special. He had it both ways: he ran the machine, and ran it beautifully -- the files, the dossiers, the interminable cross-checking. All that is essential, it's nine-tenths of the job, and it wouldn't be difficult to find a man to carry it. But it's the other tenth, nowadays, that counts in the pinches, and for that Russell had a flair. A nose. He smelt things...Colonel Russell is... something exceptional. He has a nose for the suspect but he detests suspicion; he's a humanist, a liberal in the oldest, best sense... you can't trust many when it comes to that sort of power."
Russell has said he will retire in six months. No one in his department really qualified to succeed him. the Home Secretary, Palliser, says that Russell "was something special. He had it both ways: he ran the machine, and ran it beautifully -- the files, the dossiers, the interminable cross-checking. All that is essential, it's nine-tenths of the job, and it wouldn't be difficult to find a man to carry it. But it's the other tenth, nowadays, that counts in the pinches, and for that Russell had a flair. A nose. He smelt things...Colonel Russell is... something exceptional. He has a nose for the suspect but he detests suspicion; he's a humanist, a liberal in the oldest, best sense... you can't trust many when it comes to that sort of power."

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 Definition:  1959 suspense thriller by the British writer William Haggard, the second of his 21 books about Colonel Charles Russell, head of the Security Executive [d] [e]
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Stuff from the book to eventually put in the article or into the Colonel Charles Russell article

Russell has said he will retire in six months. No one in his department really qualified to succeed him. the Home Secretary, Palliser, says that Russell "was something special. He had it both ways: he ran the machine, and ran it beautifully -- the files, the dossiers, the interminable cross-checking. All that is essential, it's nine-tenths of the job, and it wouldn't be difficult to find a man to carry it. But it's the other tenth, nowadays, that counts in the pinches, and for that Russell had a flair. A nose. He smelt things...Colonel Russell is... something exceptional. He has a nose for the suspect but he detests suspicion; he's a humanist, a liberal in the oldest, best sense... you can't trust many when it comes to that sort of power."

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