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LEO
Leo had known Julia would hate Aaron.
It was, he could admit, precisely the point.
It was a crisp, clear Saturday morning, and Leo was driving to see his asset. Leo had originally met Aaron through a contact at the Berlin embassy – while at Siemens, Aaron had come to possess a cache of top secret research documents, and nursed a grievance toward his German bosses, whom he felt looked down on him over his lack of a doctorate. Though creative in the field, at times Aaron displayed an unnecessary recklessness, and occasionally Leo thought the man believed he was in fact not an operative but an actor playing one in a movie, a character destined to survive to the end credits. Like many a movie star, Aaron was more attractive in person than on-screen. And also like most actors Leo kne
