CHAPTER 78
THE SEARCHES BEGAN frantically throughout the Vauxhall Cross building and for more than eight hours they couldn't find anything, even with all the technology they had available to find different electronic circuits from the usual in the building...
Just nothing was found.
Andrew Summers was already impatient, he had been lucky that the Prime Minister's brother had been murdered a few hours ago and all attention was not on them, just an already predictable call from the BBC asking why people had been evacuated from the building, answered the call and said that they were conducting fire training, it was a test that they performed every six months and luckily they were in the period to perform the training procedure.
As he did every time he was cornered, he rested his head on his crossed fingers and wondered where the hell the bomb could be, not knowing he was sitting on top of it.
ANDREW SUMMERS was the son of two field agents who became legends during World War II, Patrick and Bjørg Summers. Born in London , his father Patrick Summers was the only son of Captain Ernest Summers, who was killed at the Battle of the Somme in 1916, hence the surname in honor of his grandfather. After his father's death, Patrick and his mother lived in various locations, including Switzerland, and learned to ski and sail. They returned to the United Kingdom in 1931, where he built his own schooner, the Mary Fortune, which in the company of his mother, spent the next two years sailing along the British coast.
In 1937 they sailed to Norway and spent the next two years exploring the coast. During this time Patrick became fluent in Norwegian. He and his mother accepted as a crew member, a Norwegian student named Bjørg Bangsund, from the city of Tromsø and the passion was inevitable, until war broke out across Europe and he had to serve his country.
On 8 December 1939, Patrick Summers was commissioned into the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve . He served as a navigation officer on a fleet tug operating from Scapa Flow , between January and March 1940. From April to June, he served with the Anglo Expeditionary Force. / Polish / French for Norway . He disobeyed a direct order to cease evacuations of civilians from Narvik . His action saved around five thousand Norwegians for whom King Haakon of Norway granted him the Ridderkors. (Knight's Cross) of St. Olav in 1943. This award saved him from being court-martialed.
In June 1942, Patrick was assigned to collect information on the west coast of Norway. A few months later, Lord Louis Mountbatten , chief of joint operations, chose him to broadcast raid commands there, known as "Operation VP", using eight D — class engine torpedo boats .
From mid — 1943 to early 1944, he served with the 12 (Special Service) Submarine Flotilla, being trained in X— Craft and Welman , while taking time to complete parachute training with the Airborne Division. As the prospects for major actions in Norway waned, Patrick visited London and discovered Command 30 AU (Assault Unit) , the field operational unit of the Naval Intelligence Division — Room 30. He transferred to 30 AU under command. of Commander Ian Fleming, known worldwide as the author of the 007 books — who was then a personal assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence.
In this capacity, and promoted to lieutenant-commander, landed near Saint-Martin-de-Varreville, Utah Beach , Normandy, on D +4 with two Royal Marines Commandos assigned to him, and an order of unrestricted authority signed by US General Dwight D. Eisenhower to pass through Allied lines and attack specific targets in German territory. He later assisted in the decommissioning of the German destroyer Z29, at Bremerhaven , with a full crew, and in the surrender of the city of Bremen .
Immediately after the war, Patrick returned to England on 24 May 1945, and asked the Admiralty to be sent to Norway. His intention was to find Bjørg Bangsund, who had sailed with him six years earlier.
In 1945 she was nineteen and he was thirty— two. They were married in Oslo, three weeks after he met her at the Vestbane train station in Oslo. After the wedding on 26 June 1945, they returned to Edinburgh.
For a time the newly married couple lived in Onich, near Fort William , where their only child Andrew was born, later the family moved to Canada, and Patrick served in the Royal Canadian Navy and their home was a log cabin in northern British Columbia. Returning to Scotland in 1960, they lived in Lochalsh , in Nead-An-Eoin, on the coast of Outer Loch Carron . He briefly taught math, English and chemistry. Patrick's wife Bjørg died in 1986.
His son, Andrew Summers, would serve as a major in the 2nd Battalion, the Scottish Guards, and command Company G in the attack on Mount Tumbledown , during the Falklands War , where he was inevitably compared to his father, the great hero of the Second World War and the model for the most famous secret agent in cinema.
Patrick is considered the role model for James Bond, later acknowledged that Fleming had told him it was the basis for his iconic character, added:
"I've never read a Bond book or watched a Bond movie, it's not my style... And I've only loved one woman, and I'm not a man who drinks, I prefer the quiet life now... When you take one such an exciting life, you don't need to see a fictional account of it..."
He released his memoir, titled From Arctic Snow to Dust of Normandy in 1991, it was later republished as Arctic Snow to Dust of Normandy.
It was in this climate that Andrew grew up and took advantage of his father's fame to rise in his career and reach the top of the espionage world, being Director of MI6, unlike his father, Andrew was happy to cover up the mistakes and crimes that the monarchy and the ireja committed, it netted him many millions in his bank account, he was there for exactly that.
— DO YOU KNOW WHERE THE BOMB IS?
— No sir, we're still looking.
There were only three hours to go, and no one had any idea that she would be standing right in front of Andrew Summers' eyes.