Gudla Pavan Kumar

Ausable does not fit into any description of a secret agent. He is very fat and looks like a very simple man who lives in a small room on the sixth and top floor. During the time, the author spends with Ausable in the hall there was no such event which could support his being a secret agent. Ausable was different from other secret agents in more ways than one. He had a small room in the musty corridor of a gloomy French hotel. It was on the sixth and top floor and it was scarcely the setting for a romantic adventure. He was extremely fat. Inspite of living in Paris for over twenty years, he spoke French and German only passably and had an American accent. Instead of getting messages slipped into his hands by dark-eyed beauties, he got only a telephone call making an appointment. In these ways, he was different from the conventional notion of a spy.