condensed master

The Reluctant Agent
A Compelling Story of Espionage
there until the car fell below the line of sight. As he travelled the country road
back to Vermont he had not lost sight of the fact that Margaret was an agent, a
spy, and probably a brilliant one at that. Everything had seemed so plausible, but
that could be part of her brilliance. He must not allow his attitude towards the
organization to change.
Even though his job was demanding he enjoyed the constant challenge to his
expertise, but more so the fact that he totally controlled the activities of his day.
As time went by, Margaret's prediction began to materialize. He was allotted
specialized electronic's work, and in addition, calls to well known people, the first,
a female television personality who was gaining a lot of popularity at the time. Her
husband was also appearing on the box. The house was situated in a well-to-do
area and they had quite an audio visual set-up.
Will appeared around mid morning and she had taken him into a large room
capable of entertaining fifty people or more. All the equipment was situated at the
far end, housed in oak cabinets. The room contained sundry easy chairs positioned
in various places, but the main seating consisted of two large four seater settees,
which stretched across the room in front of the equipment, also taking advantage
of a big screen television set, which had broken down. Will moved the unit
forward to get to the rear and kneeling behind it, started work.
The television personality was a tall, thin blonde, wearing oversized sunglasses.
Why do these people wear dark glasses? Perhaps they've got something to hide.
She sat on the settee directly in front of the TV and picked up a magazine from a
small table to read. Not aware that Will could see her through the ventilation grill
in the front of the cabinet, she temporarily removed her dark glasses and Will
nearly fell over backwards with what he saw. She had the biggest black eye he
had seen in a long time.
It was an easy job to rectify the fault, less than ten minutes and he was on his
way, carrying with him personal information and he could hear Margaret's
comment ringing in his ear "perhaps just a simple observation" there's got to be
other people that know she's being abused, and his mind turned to Joanna. Some
time later, it all came out in the newspapers. Her husband had become an alcoholic
and he was knocking her about. It ended in divorce.
Other situations followed but they were sporadic, appearing out of the blue
and invariably involved a morning visit. None were significant enough to instigate
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