Alec Milius Spy Series Books 1 and 2: A Spy By Nature, The Spanish Game

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Source ISBN: 9780007416912

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Version: 2014-12-15

Dedication

For my wife, Melissa

Contents

Cover (#u3107c826-d38b-5980-a3a0-273f646dc5a8)

Title Page (#u89b4e5d2-2592-5554-aa3f-c29c91d4a389)

Copyright (#u7b851e55-c59b-5910-bd09-42c2ce1fc8a9)

Dedication (#u9f430ced-760b-5a3b-bc02-3cd908962b25)

Epigraph (#ua5024516-7262-5831-a15e-b1b52b4920c1)

Author’s Note (#u0a810879-1c18-5730-ba33-04312621fcd3)

Part One: 1995 (#u3af65b48-479f-5253-8430-ff36d356c9e7)

One: An Exploratory Conversation (#u6356ef49-5695-500a-bf30-6656c20e9c6f)

Two: Official Secrets (#ud67d6180-53bb-542a-b693-1c41823d7ce0)

Three: Tuesday, 4 July (#ubb09690e-0ba6-505f-9740-a2551067dd75)

Four: Positive Vetting (#ua0443f77-ea7d-5f33-8672-0e3d0332f8f9)

Five: Day One/Morning (#u4c33aede-693a-556b-89de-1f410dbdd412)

Six: Day One/Afternoon (#ub511177e-bc95-5ba3-a044-dd8f647f2298)

Seven: Day Two (#uef1cb20c-ba6c-5c12-9fc5-be938829c890)

Eight: Pursuit of Happiness (#ub28940d4-ad6d-56f4-b9a3-0afd11dc45b0)

Nine: This is Your Life (#uab6a2cc0-b66c-5d8c-ab4a-60cb96d85618)

Ten: Meaning (#u8e99dc6a-e13c-5850-ae03-bdb8270e0b9b)

Part Two: 1996 (#u10f12d09-1124-5560-8927-1ee88675717e)

Eleven: Caspian (#u234e7ae2-98a5-5f08-ad29-80ed0436f149)

Twelve: My Fellow Americans (#udbe1f139-966f-5f76-a970-af8d3d636f83)

Thirteen: The Searchers (#u1abd8b07-e21f-5b84-9a9a-84c526700521)

Fourteen: The Call (#u37010295-68c3-5d11-9549-075082512217)

Fifteen: Tiramisu (#u555f31aa-9c9e-5966-9c3b-c0b6b1ba2ccf)

Sixteen: Hawkes (#u793b5f6c-2f90-533a-bd9a-0a9e1ecf5e61)

Seventeen: The Special Relationship (#u49ca25ee-fecb-5018-9be8-9e181ea448fb)

Eighteen: Sharp Practice (#litres_trial_promo)

Nineteen: Seize the Day (#litres_trial_promo)

Twenty: Creating Justify (#litres_trial_promo)

Twenty-One: Being Rick (#litres_trial_promo)

Twenty-Two: Plausible Deniability (#litres_trial_promo)

Twenty-Three: The Case (#litres_trial_promo)

Twenty-Four: Final Analysis (#litres_trial_promo)

Part Three: 1997 (#litres_trial_promo)

Twenty-Five: The Lure (#litres_trial_promo)

Twenty-Six: The Approach (#litres_trial_promo)

Twenty-Seven: The Sting (#litres_trial_promo)

Twenty-Eight: Cohen (#litres_trial_promo)

Twenty-Nine: Truth Telling (#litres_trial_promo)

Thirty: Limbo (#litres_trial_promo)

Thirty-One: Baku (#litres_trial_promo)