by Nir Hezroni
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20500
USA
Central Intelligence Agency
Office of Public Affairs
Washington, D.C. 20505
USA
FBI Headquarters
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20535-0001
USA
With the gloves still on her hands, she put on her favorite gray sweatshirt and her worn sneakers and snuck out the house, listening to the peaceful breathing of her sleeping family and clutching the three envelopes in her hand. She stopped at the corner of the street beside a red Royal Mail mailbox. “The time for playing God is over,” she said and slipped the three envelopes through the slot. The disposable gloves were thrown into a nearby trashcan. She looked at it closely. “It pays sometimes to be paranoid.” She remembered Rotem saying something like that once.
And sometimes it doesn’t, she thought to herself, and trailed the tip of her finger along the rim of the gray circular trashcan that was covered in drops of cold water and stared down for a moment at the LOOK RIGHT → sign on the zebra crossing at her feet.
She started to run.
ALSO BY NIR HEZRONI
THREE ENVELOPES
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Nir Hezroni (1968) was born in Jerusalem. After studying physics in high school and completing several years of military service in intelligence, Hezroni retired to study economics and business management. He then proceeded to build a career in high tech. In 2014 he published his first thriller, THREE ENVELOPES, which was enthusiastically received by critics and readers alike. He lives with his family near Tel Aviv. You can sign up for email updates here.
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CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Begin Reading
Epilogue
Also by Nir Hezroni
About the Author
Copyright
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
LAST INSTRUCTIONS. Copyright © 2018 by Nir Hezroni. Translation copyright © 2018 by Steven Cohen. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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Cover design by Ervin Serrano
Cover photographs: Man © Donald Jean/Arcangel; texture © Horenko/Shutterstock.com
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Hezroni, Nir, 1968– author. | Cohen, Steve, translator.
Title: Last instructions: a thriller / Nir Hezroni; translated from Hebrew by Steve Cohen.
Description: First U.S. Edition. | New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2018. | Sequel to: Three envelopes.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017060166 | ISBN 9781250097613 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781250097620 (ebook)
Classification: LCC PJ5055.23.E98 L37 2018 | DDC 813/.6—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017060166
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First published in 2018 in Israel by Keter Books
First U.S. Edition: May 2018