Memoirs of a Mockingbird

London, England , January 1950 Within seconds the inky darkness disappears and the EIS team stare across the dinner table at each other. Nothing has changed. Mimi reaches out mentally to contact the duplicate Mimi and let her know that there has been a complication, but she can't make contact. Mimi looks around slightly dazed and confused but the rest of the team are already up and moving. Mimi follows them out of the dinning room into an impossibly dusty hallway. What was clean and well presented just thirty minutes beforehand when they entered the dinning room now looks like it has been uncleaned for years, with an undisturbed layer of dust covering everything. Madeline reaches the front door of the property first and yanks it open. Everything looks subtly different. The cars look different. The buses look different. And the air is free of smog. Mimi starts to shake and steps back within the safety of the dusty hallway and she pushes out with her senses. Multiple points of enhanc...

The EIS team have liberated Albert Einstein from a Russian facility within the walled city of Kurchatov and escaped to the west, handing him over to the American authorities . An unexpected encounter with a young girl claiming to be the daughter of Doctor Jackal on the aeroplane journey back to England has led the team back in the direction of Ravens Row. 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. London, England , January 1950 It is a January morning in a rainy London when the EIS Team jump into their car and head in the direction of Ravens Row and a meeting with Doctor Jackal. The day is Friday 23rd January 1950 and the team drive in silence as the enormity of meeting with the man they have chased around the globe settles in. As they are pulling into Whitechapel Road Mimi spots a dark sedan car seemingly following them, Sven suggests that they st...

The EIS team have liberated Albert Einstein from a Russian facility within the walled city of Kurchatov and escaped as far as East Berlin . Having made contact with the British Embassy in West Berline the team are preparing to cross the border. 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. East Berlin, German Democratic Republic , January 1950 Sven lands on the roof of the highest building overlooking the designated crossing point on the eastern side of the boarder. He had set out from the guest house, leaving the sounds of Baldrick slurping brandy behind him, and headed to get the lay of the land. He nestles into a perch and watches through the pouring rain before flapping across to the western side and locating a similar snipers nest on that side of the crossing. He notes that the crossing point is heavily guarded and that there are far more heavy w...