The Runner
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And for the next sixty seconds he rattled off everything he’d seen inside the Moscow network operations center, stopping only when the Mercedes sedan had pulled to a halt ten feet away. “You got that?”
The voice sounded shocked. “Yeah, I got it. It just sounds a little crazy. I mean, that’s not even possible, is it?”
But Byrnes didn’t answer. By then, the door of the Mercedes had opened and Tatiana, or Svetlana, or whatever the gorgeous pickpocket with the satin blue eyes wanted to call herself, had stepped into the Russian night. In her hand she held her friend’s nickel-plated Colt revolver, and she was pointing it at his chest.
“Allo, Graf.”
ALSO BY CHRISTOPHER REICH
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This book is a work of fiction. Though it contains references to historical events, people, and locales, these references are used solely to lend the fiction a historical context. All other names, characters, and incidents, as well as the dialogue and story, are the products of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, either living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2000 by Christopher Reich
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Reich, Christopher.
The runner: a novel / Christopher Reich.
p. cm.
1. World War, 1939–1945—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3568.E476284 R86 2000
813´.54—dc21 99–089058
eISBN: 978-0-440-33451-4
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