2 JAMES YOUNGJames Young loved his job and it suited him, his personality and his personal skills like a hand in a glove. He had been born forty years before, the son of a soldier from Bristol, who had been garrisoned in Portsmouth, and a local nurse. When his father had had to travel, he and his mother had stayed in England. He admired his father immensely and always had had, so it was no surprise that he had wanted to follow him into the Armed Services. However, his mother had made him aware that there were then options available that hadn’t been there when his father had joined up.
James had shown an aptitude for languages at school, although the state schools only taught French and German. When he left school with his three ‘A’ Levels, French, German and English, all straight ‘A’s’, h
