The Ingenue: Political Spy Thriller by Terry Toler

Author:Terry Toler [Toler, Terry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BeHoldings Publishing
Published: 2020-09-19T22:00:00+00:00

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Bae recovered quickly from the emotional breakdown. That was a characteristic of a good spy, Curly always said. Get back to the mission as soon as possible. Don’t dwell too long on your successes or failures.

In my line of work, I saw a lot of death and destruction. Those things had to be put out of my mind fast. The Agency required us to see a counselor periodically. She warned that such emotional disconnection from reality was detrimental in the long run. Truthfully, I had no emotional connection to the death of the Iranians. My two cents worth was that the world was better off without them.

I wondered what the counselor would say about Bae. A thirteen-year-old should never be expected to get over things that quickly. For that matter, a young girl should not have to go through what she just went through. She should be thinking about boys and homework like all the other girls her age.

Still, Bae was in a good mood, which I was grateful for because it was helping mine.

We were on the road again, headed south. It had been at least twenty miles since I saw any sign of civilization. Overall, I was feeling better about the mission. I had a weapon. The two Iranians were dead, and I didn’t have to fire a shot.

I had transportation, although it was a police cruiser which was good and bad. People in North Korea tended to avoid any contact with policemen including eye contact. The bad part of it was that an American man driving a North Korean police car would raise suspicion to anyone who had reason to look our way. The only saving grace was that the windows were darkened, and no one could see inside unless they were coming toward us and were looking through the windshield. That would only be a problem tomorrow during the day.

The biggest problem tonight was that we were both hungry and exhausted. We needed time to re-energize. The obvious place to go was Bae’s house. There we could get a shower, a meal, and a good night’s sleep. I quickly rejected that idea. No way could I put Bae through the trauma of seeing the body of her dead parents all over again.

Neither of us would get much sleep there anyway. The possibility was real that there were more Iranians out there. If there were, that was the first place they’d look. I didn’t voice that concern to Bae, but I did say that we needed to go “dark” for several hours.

“What does it mean to go dark?” she asked.

“It’s a spy term. It means that we make ourselves unavailable. Hard to find. You can also say ‘off the grid.’” The term was also a military term which meant to cease all communications. It was used on the battlefield when they didn’t want the enemy to know their location or intercept their communications. I tended to go dark a lot on a mission. I preferred to work alone and with little supervision.

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