The story is structured as a high-stakes cat-and-mouse game between two primary protagonists:
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Marcel paused at the third card and set it on the table. His finger traced the typed letters. He remembered the day this information had arrived. It had been a Friday. He had been eating a sandwich at his desk — ham and butter, always ham and butter — when the telegram came from the French embassy in London. The story is structured as a high-stakes cat-and-mouse