Memoirs of a Mockingbird

The EIS team have stopped off in Japan, on route to Russia for their new mission. Liberate Albert Einstein . The EIS team consists of Alfie Baldrick, the one man rifle section; Mimi Dubois, maîtresse of skills; Madeline Forsyth, the living shadow; and Sven Hyse, the Norwegian shapeshifter. Kokura, Fukuoka , Japan, January 1950 MI6 agent, and the teams contact in Kokura, Keith Yardly escorts the EIS team to a backstreet in downtown Kokura. The area would be considered as a slum in less polite circles, but the inside of the building is neat and tidy and the team find a lounge area set up like a photographic studio and Madeline is quick to recognise all of the tools required to forge travel documents. Off of the lounge there is a kitchen with food and drinks and a second room with several rails of clothing suited to the weather conditions in Russia. Madeline spends several minutes looking through the forging materials and eventually walks back to her team mates in the kitchen with a nod ...

Having finally made contact with Jonas Salk in San Diego the EIS team are questioning him about Doctor Henry Jackal . The EIS team consists of Alfie Baldrick, the one man rifle section; Mimi Dubois, maîtresse of skills; Madeline Forsyth, the living shadow; and Sven Hyse, the Norwegian shapeshifter. San Diego, California , United States of America, November 1949 After a moments hesitation Sven asks Salk how he knows that Doctor Henry Jackal was going on a journey. Salk replies that he was so impressed with Doctor Jackal's grasp of virology, and his insightful leaps towards a vaccine for polio, that he offered him a post at his institute but that Henry had turned him down because he said that he had places to go. When Madeline pushed Salk harder on what they had discussed Salk admitted that it had been Doctor Jackal that had made some of the intellectual leaps that had lead Salk towards the vaccine for polio. Salk went on to say that Jackal had also paid close attention to how he wa...

On the trail of Doctor Jackal the EIS team have turned their attention to virologist and medical researcher Jonas Salk, who hard to make contact with in his home town of San Diego . The EIS team consists of Alfie Baldrick, the one man rifle section; Mimi Dubois, maîtresse of skills; Madeline Forsyth, the living shadow; and Sven Hyse, the Norwegian shapeshifter. San Diego, California , United States of America, November 1949 While they sit on the roof of the Institute of Biological Studies watching the guard movements for some kind of pattern that they can exploit the frustrations of the EIS Team that have been slowly bubbling to the fore over the last few weeks finally break the surface and in the most unusual of locations they begin to discuss what it is that they consider their goal. Madeline voices her concerns that they will only be free while they are doing what is asked of them by the British Secret Service, and once their usefulness is done they will be caged in Hanslope Park. ...

Still on the trail of Doctor Jackal the EIS team are turning their attention to virologist and medical researcher Jonas Salk, who has returned to his home in San Diego . The EIS team consists of Alfie Baldrick, the one man rifle section; Mimi Dubois, maîtresse of skills; Madeline Forsyth, the living shadow; and Sven Hyse, the Norwegian shapeshifter. San Diego, California , United States of America, November 1949 The car with a pair of FBI agents within pulls away from the kerb having completed their shift on watch outside of Jonas Salk's house. Unknown to the occupants a pair of shadows cling to the underside of the vehicle going along for the ride. After a journey of around thirty minutes the car pulls off of the road, slows down to pass through some gates and then pulls into a vacant parking space. The two agents get out and Madeline overhears one of them saying that as they have nothing special to report they are heading home and will see each other in the following day. The pa...