SIX
LOWER QUINTON, WARWICKSHIRE, 2021 AD
Unknown to Liffi, who’d wanted to spare Jake the worry, he knew all about the incident at the temple, having received notification from his Whitehall contact. Reassured that contingency plans were in place, he occupied himself with further research. This time he wanted to enter the mentality of the early Anglo-Saxon settlers, get into their inner self to understand how the shift to Christianity had come about. The idea posed problems, however, because the corpus of Anglo-Saxon texts surviving to the twenty-first century was slight and he wanted to side-step monastic p********a. In an attempt to do this, the Exeter Book of Old English Verse attracted him, and he treated himself to a facsimile copy with translation. Little did he suspect what would
