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Alain promised a swift response. It would be bold, he assured Hannah, boldness being the default response of a fonctionnaire when in reality he planned to do nothing at all.
“Everyone in Beirut looks suspicious. That’s why it’s Beirut.”
It was said of Fareed that he once jailed his own butler for allowing the Earl Grey tea to steep a minute too long.
She was the decoy, the deception, the pretty clean face. She had escorted both men and women, posing as lovers and friends. She was, she joked, “bi-jihadi.”
The desks were an optimistic shade of pale pine, like something from an IKEA catalog.
