In The Enemy Stronghold

"The Plague of Masters," XII.

The vast sweep of history is composed of milliards of details such as a Terran Intelligence officer completing a mission on the isolated planet, Unan Besar. Now we come to the kind of scene that I used to enjoy in action-adventure films. Our heroes, in this case Flandry and Kemul, walk, disguised and unchallenged, through an enemy stronghold, in this case Biocontrol Central. As Flandry reflects, that they can do this demonstrates the long-term decadent sloppiness of Biocontrol. 

In UNCLE HQ, two men wearing security badges walked along a corridor toward a third man seated behind a desk. Suddenly alarms sounded. They had not known that they needed a different colour of badge to penetrate above a certain level in the building. Knowing that the alarms must apply to them, they pulled out guns and ran towards the man behind the desk who also took some measures which I don't remember. In another episode, a THRUSH double of Solo walked right into Waverley's office but did not kill him because he was after something else. I used to live for such stuff but nowadays would not value the Flandry series if it consisted only of this kind of suspense followed by fights, flights and escapes - which Anderson writes well here.