Chapter Twenty-Six
At first, there was nothing. No contact with their respective parent agencies. No sightings. No secure communication from either party. No confirmation that one contractor had taken out the other contractor. What's more, there were no dead bodies. The intelligence bureaucrats gave it a week, then maybe two more, just to be certain. But still nothing. No corpses meant no hit had taken place.
Then slowly, there was a hint of a rumour here and there. A sighting by an agent in Cyprus of a honeymoon couple; him short and tough, her tall, slender and red-headed. A watch was put on as many known associates as possible. So evidently they were not dead, not redacted… both very much still alive. And together! The spies soon came to the very annoying realisation that their two co
