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serious Risks

RACHEL LEE

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serious Risks

RACHEL LEE

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the publisher has received any payment for this book,

All the characters in this book have no existence outside the

imagination of the author, and have no relation whatsoever to anyone

bearing the same name or names. They are not even distantly inspired

by any individual known or unknown to the author, and all the incidents

are pure invention.

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First published in Great Britain 1996

Silhouette Books, Eton House, 18-24 Paradise Road, Richmond, Surrey

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For

Markey--who believed

Gil who is my hero

Bobswho shored me up when I got scared Aaron--who is my biggest fan

Heather--who shares my. excitement

And

All the men and women who perform the thankless task of protecting the

nation's security.

I feel privileged to have worked with you.

Other novels by Rachel Lee Silhouette Sensation

Defying Gravity

Exile's End

Cherokee Thunder

Miss Emmaline and the Archangel

Iron heart

Lost Warriors

Point of No Return

*A Question of Justice

An Officer and a Gentleman

Under Blue Wyoming Skies series

A Note from the Author:

As the Assistant Facility Security Officer for a defence contractor, I

was responsible for the protection of a great deal of classified

information, and I often wondered what would happen if I or one of my

colleagues ever discovered evidence of espionage. The FBI answered

that question for me at one of the Counter-intelligence Awareness

Seminars they give to defence contactors around the country.

If circumstances warrant, the FBI will ask civilians to act as double

agents. Although that sounds dangerous and brings to mind all kinds of

frightening images, the fact is, being a double agent for the FBI isn't

dangerous. As the agent leading our seminar said, "Up until now, no

American on American soil has ever been harmed by a foreign

intelligence operation ."

How disappointing! But the phrase "up until now" is where my

imagination took off, and where this book began.

Chapter I

~ c Somebody stole a classified document from my safe last night. "

The breathless, nervous claim over the telephone brought

Special Agent Arlen Coulter upright in his chair and banished every

other thought from his head. A perfectly routine afternoon of

reviewing case reports from his agents lost the last vestige of

ordinariness. Swiftly reaching across his desk, he pulled over a legal

pad and a pen.

"What's your name?" he asked the woman. "And where are you calling

from?"

"My name is Jessica Kilmer, and I'm ca! ling from a pay phone on the

interstate."

"Give me the number in case we get disconnected." He made her recite

it twice to be sure he got it right. In the background he could hear

the whiz and roar of the late-afternoon traffic. "Okay, Ms. Kilmer,"

he said. "Tell me about it."

There was a shuddery breath from the other end of the phone. "I work

for MTI--Military T~hnologies, Inc. We do a lot of defense work."

"I'm familiar with MTI," Arlen said. Indeed he was. MTI ranked as the

area second-largest defense contractor. "Go on, ma'am."

"Someone took a classified document from my safe during the night," she

repeated unsteadily, as if she couldn't quite believe her own words.

"I'm the only one who has the combination, except for the copy that

security keeps in their vault."

Aden leaned forward tensely. Possibilities were already flitting

through his head, not the least of them that this was a crank call. In

the past he had worked in counterintelligence in the Washington, D. C.

" area, so he knew just how common espionage was. Nevertheless, this

was the first hint of it that he had gotten during his entire six years

in Austin, Texas. Still, the woman knew things that only someone

engaged in classified work would know, such as the fact that security

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