She'd been searching through the archived files of the East German secret police for more than three hours. Even with the high level translation program she was using, it was tough going wading through the stilted prose of the East German bureaucratic mind. She'd found nothing about Joseph Connor. She decided to give it another half hour before she quit for the day. Ten minutes later, she got a hit. The first reference led to another and then another, and soon she was looking at the STASI file on Selena's father. The first entry was dated from 1985. Connor had been posing as a businessman interested in taking advantage of cheap East German labor. In the beginning there was only routine surveillance, automatically kept on any Western foreigner. About six months after the first entry, everything changed. Someone in the West had betrayed him. Connor was identified as a high-level CIA agent. The East Germans decided to compromise him.
