![]() ![]() The tension's so tight it's like a cobra that's been coiled for years, for as Velvet Templeton backtracks on X-14's movements - and that one missing day - she discovers that this not the first time she has been manipulated. ![]() ![]() And that may prove the undoing of whichever infiltrator has just set her up for treachery, treason and murder. So deep was her cover that even ARC's agents aren't aware of her former activities. She is his eyes, she is his ears but for so many years she was something else: one of ARC-7s most effective field operatives. The Director has a secretary with long, sable hair now distinguished with a thick, white streak of maturity. Within that service there are field agents who are numbers not names, and at its heart lies the Director. There is, you see, an espionage agency called ARC-7 so secret that most other ops don't even know it exists. Set in Paris, Monaco, London and Belgrade in the 1970s before pulling back even further to the Bahamas et al, it is lush with 20th Century fashion from the sleekest sports cars to the slinkiest stealth suits, and wait until Velvet hits the Carnival of Fools, a masque full of masks in Monaco.īy "masks" I mean spies, few more disguised than Velvet. There are some beautiful books on the market but few more so than this. I was so worried about Frank being framed so angry about X-14's murder that it doesn't even occur to me that Frank isn't the only one being framed." ![]() "And that's the last thing that gets me in trouble. ![]()
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