300 Days of Sun by Deborah Lawrenson

Author:Deborah Lawrenson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2016-04-01T04:00:00+00:00

So now she knew. A good number of the journalists were working as spies. Mostly, they were stringers for the British newspapers, but the Canadians and the Americans were involved, too. In this city teetering on the Atlantic, at the edge of Europe, little was quite what it seemed. It wasn’t only the hundreds of staff at every embassy, far more than could ever have been put to work as second secretaries and visa assistants; plenty of others were engaged in observation, incitement, and economic warfare.

Perhaps that was why she sometimes felt as if she was being watched even as she walked innocently down the street. The photography could also be interpreted in an entirely new light, especially her forays down to the quay where the flying boats docked and the studies of the shipping traffic.

As if he read her mind, Michael said, “I’ve been asked to tell you to stop wandering around with that camera. It draws attention and we don’t want that.”

“We?”

“Enough, Alva. You need to stop.”

She had attributed the feeling of being observed to the codes of behavior expected of women in Portugal. Beyond Ronald’s warnings, she had made her own observations. A Portuguese man did not take out a married woman alone. A woman would not usually go to a party without her husband. However, the husband would enjoy evenings out without his wife, leaving her at home as a matter of course. (Though this created the ideal opportunity for her to slip away to an assignation under cover of darkness.) Now she wondered who exactly had been watching her, and why.

If Michael hadn’t told her this, she would probably have stayed in Lisbon and did as she pleased while he went to Estoril that weekend. But now she felt uneasy.

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