“They sat in my kitchen on the eleventh of December and they said: the moment you comply, you have taught them that this works, and the thing they need from you becomes something they can get any time they want.

They said the only leverage you have is that they still need something.

“So I didn’t drop it.

And I did not sleep for four months, and I have a wife who is still not right, and I would do it again exactly the same way and I have absolutely no idea whether it was the correct decision.”

Then he said the thing that I have never been able to put down.

He said: “And Colonel — they moved her in the February.