• Even if it hadn’t been for all the noise, I still probably wouldn’t have been able to sleep. • The kitchen staff had gone to such extremes the night before that our only option for breakfast was cereal. • Extensive ball preparations during the...
News vans lined the barricades while uniformed men tried to keep the curious at bay. But try was all they could manage. It was New York City, after all, and word that the mayor, a senator, a district court judge, and the most popular players in the Manhattan social scene were currently being held...
He says they’re nothing, but I can hear him screaming down the hall—something about Blackthorne and Vatican City. Last night I ran to his room and found him reaching, half asleep, for a knife. He says he had an op go bad there. Only problem is, according to Langley, Agent Joseph Solomon has never...
I’ve been a runaway, a chameleon, an amnesiac. A spy. But fugitive was new to me, though I have to admit, not entirely unexpected. We took shifts, driving down two-lane blacktop and interstates, winding mountain roads. We backtracked and sidetracked and did every countersurveillance thing any of ...
The building itself sits farther back than the other embassies on the street, but the Israelis have built a new wall that juts up directly against the sidewalk. It is the only embassy on the row that has two. “Hi,” I greet the guard outside the main gates. The guard studies me but doesn’t say a t...
I mean, I’m fairly sure I managed to put on pajamas and brush my teeth, but I don’t even remember my head hitting the pillow before I was one hundred percent out of it. And dreaming. There are a lot of kinds of dreams. Liz and her books about the brain have told me that much is true. There are “i...