And the words:
“As she watched, Miss Tonks drew a pistol,” – M.C. Beaton’s Colonel Sandhurst to the Rescue
She’d travelled halfway across the globe to find him again. She’d nearly caught him in Buenos Aires, but he’d given her the slip.
In Berlin, she’d almost made contact but pulled back before revealing herself, only to discover who he’d really been working for all along. She realised that he’d told her a tissue of lies, a patchwork quilt of fantasy that she’d believed and had shared her secrets with him. Now she’d realised that he must be stopped before those secrets could fall into the wrong hands.
Finally, she’d caught him again, outside the Swiss embassy in a quiet part of Rome. There, in a colonnade, her man waited patiently and smoked a cigarette, the smoke formed snaking tendrils into the air and the smell just reached her in her hiding place. She saw a side entrance to the Embassy open and a figure in black walked towards the man she had tracked across the world. With bravado, she stepped out of the shadows and as she watched, Miss Tonks drew a pistol.
Within moments, her target had been despatched and then with a nuance of subtlety that was her trademark, she turned back in the shadows and disappeared.
[200 Words]
This story was written for the 50 Word Thursday Challenge, this week hosted by Deb Whittam, click on the link to see her post:
https://debbiewhittam.wordpress.com/2020/04/17/50-word-thursday-68/
I have also incorporated the following word prompts:
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2020/04/21/quilt/
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2020/04/21/rdp-tuesday-bravado/
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2020/04/19/rdp-sunday-swiss/
Very cool, Kristian!
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Thank you. I do enjoy a spy thriller. I always think of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. 🙂
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Great spy Story.
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Happy to see your story after some time!
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Ooooh, I LOVE this one!
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Nice tale of intrigue and espionage.
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Thanks, Fandango, I enjoyed writing it. 🙂
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Wow Kristian that was amazing, I loved her pizzazz. 🙂
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Thanks, Deb. I really enjoyed writing this one, the thing with a spy story is you can leave a lot to the imagination and it adds to the mystery. Your picture and words really inspired me. 🙂
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