The Spy Who Never Was by Tom Savage

Author:Tom Savage
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2018-01-09T00:00:00+00:00

Nora studied that final item for a long moment. Is Chris Waverly/Rose a real person? That was the big question. And yet, when she thought about the last few days of her life, it made an odd sort of sense.

Three people in three political hot spots, all slipping invisibly in and out of operations under the guise of “Rose,” moving her personal effects around from plane to hotel to plane, always one step ahead of everyone who would wish to confront her. It was possible, certainly, but was it practical? Could anyone—even the CIA—keep the lie going for nine years without ever being called out on it?

There was a much simpler explanation.

Suppose Chris Waverly were real. This woman would be a highly trained field operative—a newer, younger version of the late Fiona Fenwick, Daniel’s famous sister. Instead of MI6, she works for us. She might even use the cover name Julie Campbell; she might even be a nurse; she might even live in New York City. Maybe all the cover items they’d given Nora were based on fact.

Nora was ending one mission and initiating a new one, her own mission, giving up a chance to go straight home in favor of a trip to another country. She was helping a man she’d just stabbed in self-defense, a man who’d threatened her, a Russian mercenary who accepted contracts to murder people. Why?

Because she didn’t believe it. Any of it. Edgar Cole and Amanda Morris had told her many things in the last few days, most of them lies. They’d planted devices on her, followed her, intentionally placed her in harm’s way. Now, Nora was playing a hunch: If the good guys weren’t particularly good, there was every chance that the bad guys weren’t necessarily bad.

Her instincts as an actor told her even more: When a ruthless, internationally feared killer thinks he might be dying, he doesn’t plead with his intended victim. He doesn’t hold up a wedding ring in pathetic desperation. The Falcon wouldn’t go down with a whimper—he’d die like the legendary badass he was. Unless…

Unless he’d changed. Unless he wasn’t The Falcon anymore. If Yuri Kerensky had renounced his former ways, there was only one explanation for it: love. Nora was a sucker for a happy ending. If she could help, she would. But it was more than that, and she knew it. Jacques had been right, as ever: Nora had helped to endanger Kerensky’s wife, and she felt the weight of it. She would stop feeling guilty only when she knew this woman—whoever she was—was safe. Then, and only then, Nora could go home to her own family with a clear conscience.

The conductor made the announcement for Lucerne, and everyone else in Nora’s car began collecting their belongings and putting on their coats. As the train sped along beside the wide, dark blue lake toward the station, Nora checked the time: ten thirty-seven. Michel Brisson would be at Charles de Gaulle now, handing off her tracking devices to a French operative who apparently had a cover job with the catering services for the airlines.

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