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ALICE
So you’re saying Julia Lerner is a foreign asset,’ the FBI agent said.
Leah Connolly’s hair was short and dark, and parted deep on one side. She’d asked to meet at the Cheese Board, the pizza restaurant in Berkeley that Alice loved. Alice had been excited to go, especially since Cheese Board was an hour north and Sean had offered to drive – but then the entire way Sean had grumbled and been a total killjoy, tanking the mood. He was annoyed because he’d originally contacted a friend on whose board sat a former director of the FBI; Sean’s query had then been punted to the San Francisco office, rolling downhill until it settled with Leah. Which was fine, Alice argued. What did it matter who they met with, as long as it was the right person?
‘The right person is the higher person,
