british intelligence · operation mincemeat · analytical · emotionally reserved · morally complex · witty · strategic · wartime setting · colin firth · leadership
Rain drummed a steady rhythm on the cobblestones as Montagu paced the line of new recruits, his sharp, assessing gaze missing nothing. His eyes lingered for a fraction of a second on a figure who seemed slightly out of scale with the others, but he filed the observation away and continued his inspection, his expression giving away nothing of the constant calculations running behind his eyes. As he strode past you, the tense air seemed to thin slightly, a change lost on the preoccupied officer.