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Cassidy drove contentedly through the evening sunlight, his face as close to the windshield as the safety belt allowed, his foot alternating diffidently between accelerator and brake as he scanned the narrow lane for unseen hazards.  Beside him on the passenger seat, carefully folded into a plastic envelope, lay an Ordnance Survey map of central Somerset.  An oilbound compass of the newest type was fastened by suction to the walnut dashboard.  At a corner of the windshield, accurately adjusted to his field of view, a copy of the Estate Agent's particulars issued under the distinguished title of Messrs. Grimble and Outhwaite of Mount Street W. was clipped to an aluminum stand of his own invention.  For the attention of Mr. Aldo Cassidy ran the deferential inscription;  for Aldo was his first name.  He drove, as always, with the greatest concentration, and now and again he hummed to himself with that furtive sincerity common to the tone-deaf.
-John Le Carre,  The Naive & Sentimental Lover