Storm's Cover Story

The Corridors Of Time, CHAPTER TWO. 

Storm Darroway employs Malcolm Lockridge, a man with military training, telling him that:

Ukraine rebelled against the Soviet Union several years previously;

the freedom movement headquarters was in Copenhagen;

after a long fight, the revolt was defeated;

Germans occupying Denmark had dug a tunnel for a secret project in Jutland;

the Ukrainian resistance hid a war chest of gold at the end of that tunnel;

the few survivors of that group have decided to let a new more general liberation movement have the gold which will fund -

"'...propaganda, subversion, escape routes to the West...'" (p. 17);

it is her task to fetch the gold and he is her helper;

an American tourist will not be suspected;

the gold, beaten into leaf, will be sewn into their clothes, sleeping bags etc.

Of course he does not know whether she is telling the truth or which side she is really on but he is persuaded to trust her.

Ukraine! Another topical reference.

Storm begins to disclose her real side when she says that:

"'...the Triune Goddess...will come again...'" (p. 21)

(That Goddess is a recurring theme in Neil Gaiman's The Sandman.)

So far, what we have is the plot of a contemporary thriller. Lockridge mentions James Bond.