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* SinisterSpyAgency: The BND. [[spoiler:Framing Wicinski for possession of child porn is pretty hard to morally justify]].
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* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:Wicinski's unexpected search through [=MI5=]'s files for Kahlmann’s name puts him into this category for Kreutzmer, who's not taking any chances]].
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[[caption-width-right:310:Old spooks carry the memory of tradecraft in their bones.]]
[[caption-width-right:310:Old spooks carry the memory of tradecraft in their bones.]]
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Bachelor's a barely competent [=MI5=] agent who’s slowly circling the drain. He’s facing financial ruin, has lost his home and has seen the one notable success of his career - an operation that inserted a DoubleAgent into Germany's secret service, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) - get reassigned to someone more capable.
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Bachelor's a barely competent [=MI5=] agent who’s slowly circling the drain. He’s facing financial ruin, has lost his home and has seen the one only notable success of his career - an operation that inserted a DoubleAgent into Germany's secret service, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) - get was reassigned to someone more capable.
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* HouseSquatting: [[spoiler:Bachelor decides not to report Solomon’s death to [=MI5=] and moves into his flat]].
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* TheAllegedBoss: Pynne is Hannah’s [=MI5=] handler and he ''thinks'' he's in charge, but she’s easily manipulating him and many of the decisions are actually hers.
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* AnachronicOrder: Downplayed and discussed. The narrative makes it clear that the drop at Fischer's may have been chronologically after the Regent's Park meeting, but that those who know believe that Fischer's is where it ''really'' started.
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* TheHandler:
** As first seen in ''The List'', John Bachelor is at the least important end of the scale. He looks after "the milk round", elderly foreign assets who’ve retired to the UK.
** Richard Pynne is the new and inexperienced handler who’s taken on Hannah Weiss, the DoubleAgent Bachelor recruited at the end of ''The List''.
** Peter Kahlmann (who's actually just a cover identity for Martin Kreutzmer) is Weiss’s BND handler, who’s far more competent than Pynne or Bachelor.
** As first seen in ''The List'', John Bachelor is at the least important end of the scale. He looks after "the milk round", elderly foreign assets who’ve retired to the UK.
** Richard Pynne is the new and inexperienced handler who’s taken on Hannah Weiss, the DoubleAgent Bachelor recruited at the end of ''The List''.
** Peter Kahlmann (who's actually just a cover identity for Martin Kreutzmer) is Weiss’s BND handler, who’s far more competent than Pynne or Bachelor.
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* AllAbusersAreMale: Downplayed, then averted. Hannah requests a move from the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills because her manager’s behaviour (late night phone calls, gifts, requests for private meetings) is making her uncomfortable. Nash immediately assumes the manager in a man, Pynne corrects him. [[spoiler:And Hannah is lying about all of this anyway, trying to get a role that’s more useful to her BND handlers]].
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* AllAbusersAreMale: Downplayed, then averted.Averted. Hannah requests a move from the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills because her manager’s behaviour (late night phone calls, gifts, requests for private meetings) is making her uncomfortable. Nash immediately assumes the manager in a man, Pynne corrects him. [[spoiler:And Hannah is lying about all of this anyway, trying to get a role that’s more useful to her BND handlers]].
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* BadBoss: Subverted. [[spoiler: Hannah’s boss appears to be sexually harassing her, but Hannah - a [[DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent Triple Agent]] is lying in an attempt to get a role that’s more useful to her BND handlers]].
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* BadBoss: Subverted. [[spoiler: Hannah’s boss appears to be sexually harassing her, but Hannah - a [[DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent Triple Agent]] - is lying in an attempt to get a role that’s more useful to her BND handlers]].
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* AllAbusersAreMale: Downplayed, then averted. Hannah requests a move from the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills because her manager’s behaviour (late night phone calls, gifts, requests for private meetings) is making her uncomfortable. Nash immediately assumes the manager in a man, Pynne corrects him. [[spoiler:And Hannah is lying about all of this anyway, trying to get a role that’s more useful to her BND handlers]].
* BadBoss: Subverted. [[spoiler: Hannah’s boss appears to be sexually harassing her, but Hannah - a [[DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent Triple Agent]] is lying in an attempt to get a role that’s more useful to her BND handlers]].
* BadBoss: Subverted. [[spoiler: Hannah’s boss appears to be sexually harassing her, but Hannah - a [[DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent Triple Agent]] is lying in an attempt to get a role that’s more useful to her BND handlers]].
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* RealPlaceBackground: The titular drop takes place in Fischer’s, a very real Viennese cafe on London’s Marylebone High Street.
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* RealPlaceBackground: The titular drop takes place in Fischer’s, a very real Viennese cafe on London’s Marylebone High Street.Street.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: The waiter in Fischer's who asks Peter Kahlmann if his uncle's friend managed to get in touch. [[spoiler:Which sets Kreutzmer, who's using the Kahlmann cover identity, on Solomon Dortmund’s trail]].
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: The waiter in Fischer's who asks Peter Kahlmann if his uncle's friend managed to get in touch. [[spoiler:Which sets Kreutzmer, who's using the Kahlmann cover identity, on Solomon Dortmund’s trail]].
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* DoubleAgent: [=MI5=] is running Hannah Weiss as a double agent in the BND. Or at least they think they are.
* DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent: [=MI5=] think Hannah Weiss is a double agent spying on the BND. The BND know she’s a triple agent spying on [=MI5=].
* DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent: [=MI5=] think Hannah Weiss is a double agent spying on the BND. The BND know she’s a triple agent spying on [=MI5=].
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* LooseLips: Hannah’s inexperienced [=MI5=] handler, Richard Pynne, tells her that [[spoiler: someone’s run a search on her BND handler, Peter Kahlmann. And, later, he tells her who it was. Which allows the BND to discredit Wicinski via a FrameUp]].
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* LateArrivalSpoiler: Hannah’s existence as a DoubleAgent is mentioned in the promo blurb, which effectively spoils the first Bachelor novella, ''Literature/TheList''.
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* FrightDeathtrap: An unintentional version. [[Martin Kreutzmer is interrupted when searching Solomon’s flat, so hides in a wardrobe. When he’s discovered and bursts out to flee, the shock’s enough to kill Solomon]].
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* FrightDeathtrap: An unintentional version. [[Martin [[spoiler:Martin Kreutzmer is interrupted when searching Solomon’s flat, so hides in a wardrobe. When he’s discovered and bursts out to flee, the shock’s enough to kill Solomon]].
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* FrightDeathtrap: An unintentional version. [[Martin Kreutzmer is interrupted when searching Solomon’s flat, so hides in a wardrobe. When he’s discovered and bursts out to flee, the shock’s enough to kill Solomon]].
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* FrameUp: [[spoiler:Wicinski is framed for possession of child porn - downloaded onto his laptop by a BND hacker - after Hannah reports his name to her handler]].
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* CodeName: Hannah Weiss, [=MI5=]’s double agent in the BND, is randomly assigned "Snow White" as her code name. It seems a little too close for comfort.
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* RealPlaceBackground: The titular drop takes place in Fischer’s, a very real Viennese cafe on London’s Marylebone High Street.
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The story is followed by another novella, ''Literature/TheCatch''. It also leads back into the main ''Jackson Lamb'' series, acting as a prologue of sorts to ''Literature/JoeCountry''.
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The story is followed by another novella, ''Literature/TheCatch''. It also leads back into the main ''Jackson Lamb'' series, acting as a prologue of sorts to ''Literature/JoeCountry''.''Literature/JoeCountry''.
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!! The Marylebone Drop contains examples of:
* TheBadGuyWins: By the end of the story [[spoiler:Solomon’s dead, Alec Wicinski’s been framed for possession of child-porn and [=MI5=] has moved Hannah Weiss to the Brexit office, still unaware that she’s a BND triple agent]].
* CodeName: Hannah Weiss, [=MI5=]’s double agent in the BND, is randomly assigned "Snow White" as her code name. It seems a little too close for comfort.
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!! The Marylebone Drop contains examples of:
* TheBadGuyWins: By the end of the story [[spoiler:Solomon’s dead, Alec Wicinski’s been framed for possession of child-porn and [=MI5=] has moved Hannah Weiss to the Brexit office, still unaware that she’s a BND triple agent]].
* CodeName: Hannah Weiss, [=MI5=]’s double agent in the BND, is randomly assigned "Snow White" as her code name. It seems a little too close for comfort.
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''The Marylebone Drop'' (also published as ''The Drop'') is a 2018 novella by Mick Herron, a direct sequel to his earlier story ''Literature/TheList''. It also ties into the ''Literature/JacksonLamb'' novels and features some of the same characters.
Back before the end of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar, Solomon Dortmund was a British asset behind the Berlin Wall. These days, he’s very old and he’s retired to London, where [=MI5=] pays him a small pension. But Solomon’s still very alert and a habitual watcher of people.
So when he sees an old-school drop take place in a favourite Marylebone restaurant, he immediately recognises it for what it is. He admires the tradecraft. And he reports it to his [=MI5=] handler, John Bachelor.
Bachelor's a barely competent [=MI5=] agent who’s slowly circling the drain. He’s facing financial ruin, has lost his home and has seen the one notable success of his career - an operation that inserted a DoubleAgent into Germany's secret service, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) - get reassigned to someone more capable.
Perhaps Solomon’s report will give him an opportunity to do something noteworthy. Or perhaps, as he has before, Bachelor will simply screw it up.
The story is followed by another novella, ''Literature/TheCatch''. It also leads back into the main ''Jackson Lamb'' series, acting as a prologue of sorts to ''Literature/JoeCountry''.
Back before the end of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar, Solomon Dortmund was a British asset behind the Berlin Wall. These days, he’s very old and he’s retired to London, where [=MI5=] pays him a small pension. But Solomon’s still very alert and a habitual watcher of people.
So when he sees an old-school drop take place in a favourite Marylebone restaurant, he immediately recognises it for what it is. He admires the tradecraft. And he reports it to his [=MI5=] handler, John Bachelor.
Bachelor's a barely competent [=MI5=] agent who’s slowly circling the drain. He’s facing financial ruin, has lost his home and has seen the one notable success of his career - an operation that inserted a DoubleAgent into Germany's secret service, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) - get reassigned to someone more capable.
Perhaps Solomon’s report will give him an opportunity to do something noteworthy. Or perhaps, as he has before, Bachelor will simply screw it up.
The story is followed by another novella, ''Literature/TheCatch''. It also leads back into the main ''Jackson Lamb'' series, acting as a prologue of sorts to ''Literature/JoeCountry''.
