Dark Spies: A Spycatcher Novel by Matthew Dunn

Author:Matthew Dunn [Dunn, Matthew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780062309464
Amazon: B00HU5KLR0
Barnesnoble: B00HU5KLR0
Goodreads: 20604376
Publisher: William Morrow
Published: 2014-10-07T05:00:00+00:00

Antaeus was deep in thought as he walked beside the lake on his large, wooded and heath-covered grounds, fifty miles outside of Moscow. Two things were on the spymaster’s mind: Project Ferryman and Will Cochrane. It was imperative that Cochrane didn’t learn the truth and destroy Antaeus’s strategy to cripple America. Cochrane had to fail and back down, or be killed.

Killing a man was not only distasteful to Antaeus; he also saw it as a sign of weakness, because it usually meant that something had gone wrong. Throughout his career he’d always believed that the most effective weapon in a spy’s armory was his mind. Time and time again, he’d proven that his brilliant tactics were infinitely superior to those of his more brutish colleagues. That’s why he answered to no one except the premier of Russia. And even the premier rarely dared to challenge or attempt to direct Antaeus. As a result, Antaeus was the real brain and power behind Russia’s desire for ascendancy and world dominance. And right now, that brain would not hesitate to issue orders to have Cochrane murdered.

Even though Antaeus highly respected Cochrane and would gain no pleasure from killing him.

He put Cochrane and Ferryman out of his mind and started scrutinizing the land beneath him. After a while he stopped, used the tip of his long walking stick to unearth a barely visible stone, and ignored the pain down one side of his body as he picked it up. After brushing off soil, he smiled. The object was a Stone Age flint axhead, crafted with immaculate precision, and was no doubt the best he’d found during his comprehensive research into the settlement that had existed here twenty-two thousand years ago. Back inside the house, he would mount the tool and draw it so that he could add the illustration to the thesis he was submitting to the Moscow Archaeology Museum. The discovery of the tool would bolster his argument that, contrary to perceived wisdom, Stone Age man was not solely nomadic during the Ice Age in western Russia, but would settle in one place for long periods of time and would rely extensively on the fur, flesh, and bones of mammoths for clothing, food, and the construction of shelters. The tool would have taken days to make and was unlike the crude tools made by people on the move. Its maker was a patient, cunning man who had the wit to let his prey come to him rather than risk death from exposure during a hunt. Despite the severity of his surroundings, he was in control of his environment.

Antaeus’s cell phone rang.

A U.S. number.

He listened to the caller for two minutes before saying, “I will alert my team that Cochrane’s in the States. But if the FBI gets to him first, you know what needs to be done.”

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