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crone
internecine
phlegmatic
flourish.
gamine
colonnaded
macadam
jackdaw
bridled
As he looked at her across the table, Ustinov wanted his thumbprints all over her.
The diffused candlelight barely illuminated one fine blue vein on her breast beneath flawless skin.
synesthete.
glower
lithe
lasciviousness,
miasma
The doctor muttered, “Lisfranc fracture of the midfoot,” and after a series of orthopedic examinations and surgery, and a cast on her foot to the ankle,
assignation
parabolas
gilt
lupine
paroxysm
garrote
Polyphemus.
keening,
A wailing lament for the dead
slough
organs
The only women involved in field operations were the co-opted wives of rezidenturi officers, and the vorobey, the trained “Sparrows” who seduced recruitment targets.
vermilion.
chrysalis
contrived
coverlet
guilelessly
tetrahedron
honey trap?”
sheaf
Rust Belt.
gouts
lozenges
daguerreotype
Tatar
resplendent
Soporific
salacious
libertine—whoever
brusque
stoats
expiation.
Sometime during the assessment process, the SVR had elbowed its way in and declared primacy over the FSB—it was a foreign case, not domestic.
guileless
