Above the line is what you do by the book. Below the line is how you do the job. (Location 4749)
To place Axel or Sergeant Pavel in the position of a double agent would unloose a string of immediate consequences, all frightful: Membury would lose Greensleeves to London; Pym’s successor would discover the deception in five minutes; Axel would once more be betrayed and his chances of survival forfeit; the Memburys would be posted to Siberia. (Location 6823)
Note: The con. States of euphoric success built on fraud.
In his imagination, he saw himself with cellars full of nylons and black-market chocolate, enough to see everybody right in every shortage – and Intelligence is nothing if not an institutionalised black market in perishable commodities. And this time Pym himself was the hero of the fable. No Membury stood between himself and the fraternity. (Location 7931)
