Jason Yeo sat alone on the bench in the middle of the park with a cup of coffee. He had been sitting for an hour, dazed by the news. He didn’t shed a tear; he didn’t call anyone; he just sat, watching the frail human beings, who had no idea how frail they were, stroll- ing past him with their friends at their side, their kids at their side, their dogs at their side.It was just another day to them, wiping children, laughing in the midst of conversation, cleaning up after their dogs.Two lovers were arguing on a b

 Sometimes known as a boil on the ass of an angel, Dinkleberry worked the night shift in the lowest personnel level of Deep 6. The levels beneath him were storage areas and finally the Underground out of the desert, back to civilization. Deep 6 was located in the bowels of a remote desert, its existence unknown to even the official powers of the government. It was unknown to the CIA. It was unknown to Mossad. It was the most important intelligence operative of the Shadow State, whose membership consisted of the people who actu

He found her in the garden, leaning over some plants. Her passion for gardening began after Roland’s death. She spent the entire afternoon in the sun. It kept her free from the shadows of her thoughts, at least for a time. She once had friends who came in the afternoon and sat on the veranda over lunch. The rest of her time had been spent painting in the studio on the third floor, looking out on the lake.

Yeo flew back to New York.He called a meeting of the board members and the full management team. Chuck Maitland had delegated authority to the people he knew he could rely on.Pulling a tight-knit organization together, sworn to silence, everyone acting like a CIA suddenly converted to gentleness and love for human kind, required a lot of discretion. And even more trust. 

Sonny Boy was a twenty-six-year-old black drag queen. She was testing games for software companies when she was eight. She was a manager by the time she was ten. By the time she was twenty-two she was designing software for Fortune 500 companies.