Happy Anniversary, BabyThe title is a riff on Happy Birthday, Baby, the second chapter of Houseboat on the Nile, Book 1 of Spy vs. Spook. This takes place in 2004 and is one of the few Sidebars told from Mark Vincent’s POV. Thanks to Tim Mead and Gail for their help with this.
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Before Quinton Mann, I’d mostly done one-night stands. It was easier, neater that way.
After Quinn, it was just him, and it was better, in spite of the fact that he was CIA and I was WBIS, because frankly, never the twain should have met.
But we did meet.
We were the last people anyone would have expected to wind up together.
Somehow, we did wind up together.
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Quinn and I were never what you might call formally introduced.
Of course I’d known of the CIA spook for some years, and most likely he
