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The Rare Book Room at the Library of Congress wasn’t what she’d expected.
Tanya had assumed it was the central room that sat beneath the great copper dome of the Thomas Jefferson Building with its circular reading desks arranged like a giant bullseye around the librarian’s central desk, multi-story mezzanines, and giant statuary of the Muses. It was always the room they showed in movies and it seemed very special.
Instead, Alex led her through that room and up a flight of stairs.
Even after two days he still had a slight limp from a knee he’d twisted while taking the brunt of their fall.
She shivered again at how close it had been.
Novichok nerve agent. A single spray to her face and she’d be dead by now. That tiny bottle would be enough to kill hundreds.
Though Russia had denied
