A Spy Came Home by H. N. Wake

Author:H. N. Wake [Wake, H. N.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery
Goodreads: 23903949
Publisher: Createspace
Published: 2014-12-16T00:00:00+00:00

The guys around the bar hooted over a joke. The lopsided fan over their small table creaked as it spun.

Neha whispered, “You ready to talk about Beijing yet?”

Mac blinked, pulled hard on her beer bottle. Her eyes retreated to a distant place and she told the story in a detached voice.

It had been a great cover; her alias had been a mid-level expat banker with a huge American investment bank based in Beijing. It had not been the first time she’d been embedded with a US bank, but it had been the first time in China. She had been meeting the tech start-up kids, the newly emerging rich class. Her list of potential assets wanting to move their money and families to Silicon Valley had been growing every month. Langley’s approval to approach hadn’t arrived yet, but after 12 months she had been optimistic the green light was coming soon.

Instead, a knock at the door to her high-rise apartment had come in the middle of the night. She had opened it as a mid-level banker would, in a sweatshirt and jeans, blurry eyed.

Six Chinese secret police took her off into the night.

Two months later, she had been released from an off-the-grid work camp fifty pounds lighter, hair falling out, fingernails growing back. They had tried but had not broken her.

Someone back in Langley - most likely Odom - had worked a deal with a senior Chinese Managing Director in the bank who then worked his back room connections.

She had been driven to an airplane, sworn to silence, and blacklisted from Chinese territory.

Langley had given her three-months personal leave. She had chosen a dive resort on a remote Indonesian island where she had spent every day in silent, aquamarine swells, watching fish and sea creatures get on about their lives while the tanks’ oxygen cleansed her lungs, veins and memories.

When she emerged, they put her back in the field.

Just not in China.

Under the loopy fan, Mac ran all ten fingernails across her scalp.

Neha placed both hands flat on the table. “Did they rape you?”

Mac whispered very slowly, “You don’t want to ask that question.”

“Don’t I?”

“Of course they did.”

“Jesus Christ.” Neha reached across the table, squeezing Mac’s hands.

A loud laugh from the bar jolted them.

Neha leaned in closer. “No fucking harm in planning an exit from the Agency. You don’t owe them shit. You’ve done your time and then some.” Neha’s hands were covered in red dust. “Mac, they can’t take it all away.”

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