The meeting between the operational team that made up MACE and the controller of the Constellation network took place in "The Eyrie". It was a small, two-roomed office, positioned at the top of one of the many obscure buildings behind Whitehall, which the Secret Intelligence Service maintained for discreet meetings between its officers.
A visit to Headquarters at Broadway would have been unthinkable. Redaction Unit members were always briefed and debriefed at an off-site secure location, and because of the nature of their work they seemed to have acquired a reputation for "worrying" the regular officers.
So, Operation MACE; a mace like a weapon, hard and blunt and heavy. A weight to crush an enemy! It was what the Redaction Unit did best.
It was decided that the teams would be split int
