Daniel Miller is an agent with British Intelligence.
The time frame for his activities that we are allowed to follow in the first recorded adventure take place during the middle of the Second World War; the second several years after that horrific conflict ended.
When we first meet Miller, he is a Private in the British Army and has been for the two years that the War has been ongoing. For reasons we will slowly discover, one of which is his superb native speaking abilities with both Russian and German, he will be chosen to be one of a few very select candidates to a vital mission deeply behind enemy lines. He has no training at that point in spycraft or in killing from a distance (or close up) but he will soon be taught such things. The first that that is made known to us about Miller that is noteworthy, besides his proficiency in languages, trained by his father from a youth to speak more than just his native English, is that he makes it a point to notice things, not just to look but also to pay attention to his surroundings; he does this as a second nature.
... more to come
Good Lines:
- About a restaurant that Miller occasionally frequents, "The Blue Duck seemed to go through waitresses quicker than a politician discarded a promise".