Chapter 9, Night Visitors, and Chapter 10, Death in the Long Grass Summary

In Chapter 9, Alex plays Herod Sayle at snooker. When Sayle suggests a bet, Alex talks him into one hundred pounds a point. Sayle is angry when Alex manages to win the game, causing Sayle to owe him four thousand pounds. Alex and Sayle have dinner together. Alex finds Sayle's company difficult. That night, Alex gets out of bed at one o'clock and hides in the back of a truck which Mr. Grin drives away. The truck goes down to the sea shore where a submarine rises out of the water. Mr. Grin and his men take multiple metal boxes out of the submarine and load them into the truck. Yassen Gregorovich is among the men from the submarine. When one of the workers drops a...