THE LAST
CAR DOWN
I’d put it beneath two shirts in the bottom of my suitcase, with the top right corner tucked under the leather strap that held the clothes in place.
Nothing ingenious about it. I simply wanted to know if somebody had been there.
Now the corner was on top of the strap.
The shirts had been put back rather well.
I stood beside the bed and listened.
The Hotel Adler was never quiet. Pipes knocked inside the walls. The lift groaned somewhere below. From the street came the scrape of a snowplough turning at the intersection.
I checked my watch.
4:12.
Varga had been dead for ten hours.
Three days earlier he’d called the Vienna office and asked for me by name. I’d never heard of him.
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A dead source. Six payments. One cable car ride into danger.
When intelligence officer Mercer is handed a mysterious envelope tied to a dead informant, he discovers evidence that somebody has been paying money to people who shouldn’t exist.
The trail leads onto a cable car crossing a frozen landscape and into a conspiracy that’s been hidden for years.
Some secrets don’t stay buried.
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A lean, fast-moving espionage thriller without hundreds of pages between the danger and the answer.
Classic spy suspense
Intelligence tradecraft, hidden motives, dangerous meetings and a conspiracy that deepens.
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Some secrets don’t die quietly.
Find out what Mercer discovers on the last car down.
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