The hidden target
Helen MacInnes
A young woman is innocently caught up in a terrorist organization that is under surveillance by an army major she once loved at age fifteen.
Read Time: ~6.7 hr
The cutout
by Francine Mathews (2001)
About this book
CUTOUT: A third person used to conceal the contact between two people. A pawn.They were partners -- lovers in a business WHERE betrayal is a heartbeat away. CIA analyst Caroline Carmichael lost her husband Eric when his plane was blown out of the sky by an elite group of terrorists known as 30 April.Now her dead husband has surfaced among those responsible for an explosion that rocks Berlin -- and the brutal kidnapping of the U.S. Vice President. Uncertain of Eric's motives and loyalties, the Agency plays its last, best card: Eric's wife -- the Cutout.Is Eric a rogue agent gone bad? Or has he thrown himself under deep cover to terminate a ruthless psychopath? Caroline is drawn into a dizzying maze where one wrong turn will mean certain death ... and in which the Cutout will be the first to fall.From the Paperback edition.
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraModern Era
Protagonist / CoreThe cutout Lead Character
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