Alec Milius Spy Series Books 1 and 2: A Spy By Nature, The Spanish Game. Charles Cumming

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       Copyright

       Dedication

       Epigraph

       Author’s Note

       Part One: 1995

       One: An Exploratory Conversation

       Two: Official Secrets

       Three: Tuesday, 4 July

       Four: Positive Vetting

       Five: Day One/Morning

       Six: Day One/Afternoon

       Seven: Day Two

       Eight: Pursuit of Happiness

       Nine: This is Your Life

       Ten: Meaning

       Part Two: 1996

       Eleven: Caspian

       Twelve: My Fellow Americans

       Thirteen: The Searchers

       Fourteen: The Call

       Fifteen: Tiramisu

       Sixteen: Hawkes

       Seventeen: The Special Relationship

       Eighteen: Sharp Practice

       Nineteen: Seize the Day

       Twenty: Creating Justify

       Twenty-One: Being Rick

       Twenty-Two: Plausible Deniability

       Twenty-Three: The Case

       Twenty-Four: Final Analysis

       Part Three: 1997

       Twenty-Five: The Lure

       Twenty-Six: The Approach

       Twenty-Seven: The Sting

       Twenty-Eight: Cohen

       Twenty-Nine: Truth Telling

       Thirty: Limbo

       Thirty-One: Baku

       Thirty-Two: End of the Affair

       Thirty-Three: Caccia

       Thirty-Four: Think

       Thirty-Five: Fast Release

       Thirty-Six: West

      Epigraph

      I remember, in fact, the Lebanese woman I knew at Berkshire College saying to me, after I told her how much I loved her: ‘I’ll always tell you the truth, unless of course I’m lying to you.’

      Richard Ford, The Sportswriter

      Author’s Note

      Were the events of this story entirely true, they would inevitably breach clauses in The Official Secrets Act. Nevertheless, members of the intelligence community both in London and in the United States may find that they catch their reflection in the account which follows.

      –C.C.

       London, 2001

      PART ONE

      1995

      If we hope to live not just from moment to moment, but in true consciousness of our existence, then our greatest need and most difficult achievement is to find meaning in our lives.

      —Bruno Bettelheim, The Uses of Enchantment

      ONE

      An Exploratory Conversation

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