Enemy Agents

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Navy SEALS. He was a master tactician and was able to apprehend even the best-guarded target. Quarrel doubted Hall would be the traitor, but then maybe that was because he was the only suspect Quarrel had actually met. Maybe he was still seeking Hall’s approval. But when Quarrel thought about it a little more, an instructor at a course like Hall’s would be able to influence a lot of young spies—and possibly turn that influence into something dangerous.
    The other four were strangers to Quarrel; either by being so good at their jobs that they were not well known, or by being less flashy than the first three. Their names were Peter Scarret, Khalid Saleb, Jessica Swift, and one simply called “Mr. Smith.” They all had their talents and their impressive lists of missions completed. The files also contained psych profiles outlining the myriad reasons why they were good agents, and in one case why they were not. Of course, those reasons led very directly to motives for betraying America.
    Saleb, an Afghan by birth before immigrating to the USA at age eight, was now in federal custody. Six months earlier he had snapped and killed his partner. It was believed that Saleb was attempting to turn double. He had failed to escape because his partner managed to get a shot off before she died. She put the bullet in his brain. Saleb had gone into a coma for a month. He was now claiming amnesia—that he had no memory prior to waking up five months ago. Milton had ruled him out as the leak because he had been locked up long enough that he wouldn’t possibly know about Crowe’s mission. Still, Saleb could have leaked for years before his partner finally shut him down. Since he was already contained, Quarrel made Saleb a low priority. After all, this was the one suspect who definitely had nothing to do with the Ottawa bombing.
    Jessica Swift was a cat burglar. Her file described “highest-level infiltration and safecracking.” However, she was not a killer. Her profile listed her as “unlikely to be capable of killing,” and “too empathetic for type-one jobs” while warning that exposing her to excessive violence would likely compromise her mental state. Quarrel put her to the bottom of the file as well.
    Mr. Smith was a blank slate. He had no place of birth, no social security number, not even a next of kin. His psych record was on the same standard form as the others, but instead of a well-reasoned profile, it just said “as expected” in a man’s handwriting and then had a date stamp. Chris looked up from the file and over to Milton, eyebrow raised in an exaggerated arch. “Was this guy, Smith, grown in a lab or something?” Milton smiled and nodded. Chris moved to the next file.
    Peter Scarret, codenamed “Shark,” was also a former SEAL. Unlike Hall, Shark Scarret had gone rogue twenty years ago and was captured by the CIB when he was trying to sell rocket propelled grenades to Iraqis militia. He was charged with treason, sentenced to death, and offered his role at CIB as an alternative to the firing squad. He spent the last twenty years serving dutifully in high-risk missions. He never betrayed CIB in all those years, likely because Milton had installed a small explosive charge in Shark’s neck. If Shark went off-mission, Milton could blow his head clean off from anywhere in the world. Not exactly the best way to get a man’s loyalty, but it seemed to have worked so far. Quarrel saw in Shark’s profile someone who would be likely to hate both America and the CIB, but it was a very real question whether Shark would take the risk of getting his head blown off just to get back at Harry Milton.
    Nevertheless, Chris lifted Shark’s file and waved it through the air. “We have a winner. I’ll want to talk to him first.”
    “I thought you would. I bought your plane ticket this morning.”

 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
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    Thorpe strolled into a small office near the top of a London high-rise. It

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