Chapter Eight
Their affair became a secret version of their already existing covert life, but this time they were hiding not only from each other's countries, but also the people that surrounded them. Very quickly, they became aware of the battle that was within them and it became less about Vogel and the Stasi and Masterman and SIS – and became more about how to keep each other alive and still hide in the shadows.
Once a week, they would meet in a safe house that SIS had, under an assumed identity, rented in Mitte in East Berlin. For the first hour, they would conduct their covert relationship; she would pass him confidential material and he would conduct a professional debriefing of his agent. And what an agent!
EMERALD was quite the exceptional spy; she had picked the lock of her hus
