Chapter Two
The months passed slowly as the ever-increasing war of tit for tat was being played out on the streets of Berlin. The Gutterfighters' remit was broad and, while they were officially an intelligence gathering unit, they were frequently called upon to handle the jobs that the more formal intelligence officials would get worried about.
There was the recruitment of Berlin youths with the aim of creating a stay-behind network from the ground up, just in case the Russians decided to encroach over their borderlines. There was the vast array of small-time informants that the team were buying up, if only because they might come in handy at some point in the future. Then there were the practice runs and surveillance reconnaissance, where the team were operating covertly, seeing what th
