The Bourne Defiance by Brian Freeman

Author:Brian Freeman [Freeman, Brian]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2023-07-25T00:00:00+00:00

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The operative known as Yoko sat on the steps of the New York Public Library with her back against the platform that supported one of the stone lions. She had a notebook computer balanced on her lap, and she tapped the keys at lightning-fast speed. Her blue eyes focused on the screen from behind round wire-rimmed glasses, and her matching blue hair hung in long bangs down the forehead of her small, round face. While she typed, she kept an eye on the hordes of people coming and going on the crowded sidewalks of Fifth Avenue. Sometimes Lennon tested her. He would send someone to take her picture, and she had to be able to tell him who it was. If she failed, there was punishment.

Admittedly, Yoko liked his punishment. Sometimes she failed his tests on purpose, in order to savor the pain he doled out.

He had named her the new Yoko—his second-in-command—four months earlier. She liked the perks of her position, the power, the violent assignments, the occasional sex. But she also knew that she was only the latest in a long line of women to serve his needs, and she was aware of the risks that came with the role. The previous Yokos were all dead. Everyone close to Lennon was a target.

Yoko was small, barely five feet tall, and only nineteen years old. Age and size didn’t matter. She’d made her first kill—poisoning a Russian dissident on the London Underground with the prick of a fake fingernail—by the time she was thirteen. At fifteen, she’d slept with a member of Parliament and blackmailed him into changing his vote on trade legislation. At seventeen, she’d infiltrated a band of climate extremists and led bombings across Germany and France. At that point, Lennon had concluded that her profile was too high to stay in the UK and Europe, and he’d moved her across the pond to set up shop in the U.S.

Now he’d made her the lead in setting up their biggest mission ever.

She’d been on the library steps since four o’clock in the afternoon. It was now midevening, almost dark, and the library would be closing soon. When the people around her thinned, she’d have to find a new location. She was logged in to the government account of FBI Special Agent Michael Green, whose password she’d stolen while staying in an adjoining room in a Denver hotel. She didn’t think the FBI was likely to detect her hacking—or if they did, to pinpoint her location that quickly—but just in case, she always did her research in public places where she could melt into the crowds if she saw the feds coming.

On her screen, the email database showed a list of death threats made against U.S. politicians and prominent government figures. For each email, Special Agent Green had compiled a risk assessment analyzing the seriousness of the threat and attaching a bio of the sender and any known associations with extremist or terrorist groups. It was a long list.

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