Princess Elizabeth's Spy: A Maggie Hope Mystery by Susan Elia MacNeal

Author:Susan Elia MacNeal
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Fiction
ISBN: 9780553593624
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 2012-10-16T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

The next morning, at a tiny newsstand not too far from Boswell’s Books, Maggie saw Nevins, paging through Men Only magazine. She approached.

Maggie looked through the titles and busied herself flipping through a copy of National Geographic. The newsstand’s proprietor was overseeing a delivery in the back.

“The mission was a success,” she said quietly.

“Terrific. Hand over the film, darling,” Nevins said.

“No,” Maggie said, not looking up from the pages.

Nevins spun around to face her. “No? Do I need to remind you this is my operation? Now give me the damn film.”

She looked up. Slowly. “Look, Nevins,” she said, appraising him, “This isn’t going to work.”

“Darling, I’m your superior officer. I give the orders. You follow them.”

“I’m the one with the film, Nevins. I’m the one with access to the castle. I’m the one who almost got caught taking these photos. And I’m the one questioned because I was spotted talking to you—you, who felt the need to just stop by and say hello to your ‘darling’ out in the open and without a pretext. Yes—we were seen, and I was questioned about it.”

Maggie squared her shoulders and looked him in the eyes, deadly serious. “I’ve realized something recently, Nevins. I’m the one with the power. You need me. Frain needs me. My days of blindly following orders are over. Especially orders from someone like you, who’s all ego and no integrity.”

Nevins’s jaw dropped. “Bitch!”

Maggie’s nostrils flared with contempt. “Tell Mr. Frain that if Agent Thompson isn’t on the other end of the pickup, he’s not getting this film.”

“But, but—” Nevins spluttered. “Thompson’s a nothing, a nobody!”

“He’s an infinitely better agent than you.” Maggie put down her magazine and smiled. “As far as I’m concerned—you’re fired.”

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