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Dead Spy Running
Jon Stock
Re-inventing the spy story for the 21st Century.John Le Carre meets Jason Bourne!Suspended MI6 agent Daniel Marchant is running out of time. He’s alongside a man strapped with explosives at the London Marathon. If they drop their speed the belt will detonate, killing all around them. But is Marchant secretly working for the terrorists?Marchant’s father, ex-chief of MI6, was accused by the CIA of treachery. To prove his innocence, Marchant must take a perilous journey via Poland and India to unearth his father’s dark past, test his relationship with fellow spy Leila and challenge the heavy hand of America’s war on terror.Most of all, he has to learn to trust no one.
Jon Stock
Dead Spy Running
For Hilary
Therefore I lie with her and she with me,
And in our faults by lies we flatter’d be.
William Shakespeare
Contents
Epigraph
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A bright Blackheath morning and it was already hot, too…
2
It took ten minutes for Marchant to find Pradeep again.
3
Paul Myers was unpicking encrypted emails and eating his fourth…
4
Daniel Marchant looked out across the shallow valley and watched…
5
Paul Myers drew heavily on his third pint of London…
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Marchant watched from his bedroom in the safe house as…
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Marchant knew that someone was in his room as he…
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It was a long-held custom that the first half of…
9
Later that day, Fielding accepted Chadwick’s offer of a sharpener…
10
Leila headed back to London that night, leaving Marchant to…
11
The gang of Year Five boys in the corner of…
12
The undisputed waterboarding world champion was Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Marchant…
13
Nine hundred miles west of Poland, Marcus Fielding took a…
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Leila turned the key in the front door and slipped…
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For a moment, Marchant wasn’t sure if the explosion was…
16
After a bone-breaking, hundred-mile drive through the Polish countryside, Marchant…
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Marchant knew that the best legend for a spy was…
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Sir David Chadwick had spent a lifetime brokering compromises in…
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Hassan was the only asset Leila had ever slept with.
20
Spiro didn’t like the CIA sub-station in Warsaw. He didn’t…
21
Marchant lay on the bed, watching Monika as she undressed…
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Leila had met Jago, a tousle-haired six-year-old, once before, but…
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Spiro looked again at the grainy image of a two-tonne,…
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Six miles south-west of the shopping mall, Daniel Marchant sat…
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Prentice sent the pre-written text while his hand was still…
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Daniel Marchant pushed open the blue door, not sure what…
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‘It was a precaution, Marcus, nothing more,’ Sir David Chadwick…
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After twenty-four hours in India, Daniel Marchant concluded that he…
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It was Alan Carter’s first visit to Legoland, but after…
30
Leila took it as a very public expression of gratitude…
31
Marchant felt the weight of a body lying on top…
32
‘Can we assume that Marchant was at the club?’ Fielding…
33
In another life, a different time, Marcus Fielding and William…
34
Paul Myers had been drinking heavily all evening in the…
35
Marchant heard the police before they reached his carriage. He…
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Fielding had ordered his driver to turn round and head…
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Marchant stood in the shade of a stall selling strings…
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Fielding’s office clock said 7.30 a.m.
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Marchant listened to the rustle of the necklaces slung loosely…
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Paul Myers hadn’t been hit so hard since he was…
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Fielding lifted the flute to his lips and began to…
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Leila listened as Monk Johnson finished running through the itinerary…
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There was something about the network of cave-like huts on…
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Fielding put down the phone and looked around the room,…
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‘Sons turn out in the strangest ways,’ Carter said. ‘My…
