Gilda Joyce : the dead drop

318 Pages·2009·2.84 MB·English

by  Jennifer Allison

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Designed by Irene Vandervoort
ISBN: 1-101-05394-1
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To my friends at the International Spy Museum with appreciation,
and to anyone whoever dreamed of becoming a spy.
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coNTeNTS
Prologue 3
1 The arrival 7
2 The Roommate 14
3 The Psychic Spy 21
4 a d.c. Tour Guide for Math-camp Shut-Ins 23
5 The Spy Museum 29
6 The Life of a Spy 44
7 cIa Project MINdScaPe 51
8 The acquisition 56
9 Spy camp 74
10 The Message in the cipher 79
11 The Museum Ghost 87
12 The Promotion 90
13 The dead-drop Message 96
14 The Secret code 104
15 Team crypt 109
16 The Profiler 123
17 Lincoln’s Ghost 138
18 “The Man of our dreams” 141
19 The Ghost in the Machine 146
20 The Frightening Face 153
21 Two Truths and a Lie 161
22 dream of the Psychic Spy 171
23 cracking the code 175
24 a dangerous encounter 182
25 an unpleasant discovery 184
26 The Graffiti Ghost 194
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