Back Channel (2014)
“A dank basement lined with shackles. Truncheons. Bright lights in her face. Even being marched to the parapets lining the roof: Tell us your mission, or we throw you off! Instead, she sat in a steamy office, the windows tightly shut. They had driven her to what Agatha called, half jokingly, the Forbidden City: a compound of broad, squat buildings on the outskirts of Varna, guarded by grim men in greatcoats. She was pretty sure she was on the first floor. The windows gave on a floodlit inner cou...rt where motorcycles and black ZIL automobiles were lined up as if waiting for the parade. For an hour or more they had left her alone with her fears, but her solitude was past. A blue-clad female guard stood near the door, at parade rest. She was not wearing a sidearm, but the deadness in her gaze said she could break Margo in half without a twinge of regret. The chair had a bad leg and wobbled every time Margo tried to get comfortable. The table was plain wood, and on the other side, the same colonel who had presided over her arrest offered foul cigarettes and a grape-flavored rakia, known locally as grozdova—“to calm your nerves, miss”—but she accepted only mineral water.MoreLess
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