Ilya sat quietly in the corner of the motel room while Thad had sex with the young woman Ilya had procured for him. Ilya guessed, from Thad’s energy and enthusiasm, that he hadn’t slept with a woman in quite a while. Ilya also guessed this because Thad was pale, with long, stringy, unwashed hair,...
Alexis Truffant’s cell phone rang the moment she walked back into her apartment. “Truffant here,” she said, trying to mask the exhaustion in her voice. From the moment Kline had stepped into her office with the news of the Fed president’s shooting, Alexis’s mind had been o...
AmeriCool Environmental Services prided itself on being a computer-savvy company. They had their own in-house IT team, and when they installed HVAC systems—giant air-conditioning units that could cool entire buildings in the middle of a Virginia summer, or heat pumps that could keep South Boston ...
She is on board. She? Garrett said to himself. The Tiger was a woman? Fascinating. Garrett liked that. It was unexpected. The Communist Party probably found it unexpected as well. Maybe that was why the Tiger’s movement had been so hard to snuff out. Perhaps being a woman in China meant something...