Summary

Chapter 1, Nathaniel “Nate” Nash ran a 12-hour surveillance detection route (SDR), and by the time he was finished, he was certain he was not being followed or spied upon. Nate was two minutes away from meeting with his double agent, MARBLE, who was a legend and one of the CIA’s most valuable tools. MARBLE was a major general in the SVR, the foreign intelligence service of Russia. He had been working for the CIA for 14 years, a good record since Cold War spies only lived about 18 months. Nate was determined not to lose MARBLE on his watch. He was more to Nate than a source, he was a man. MARBLE had decided to work for the Americans because the Russians would not allow him to take his wife to an American oncologist. She had died because of that decision. Eight years later...