The Cut-Out by Jon King is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Cut-Out by Jon King as today's third free mystery ebook (A Spy Thriller; Kindle format only).

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The Cut-Out
Jon King
A Spy Thriller
Publisher: Jon King

Britain in the nineties was obsessed with the X-Files. The high street was awash with X-Files type magazines, and as senior editor of the biggest selling one on the market, I was accustomed to receiving phone calls from anonymous sources promising inside information. So when the American called me up and said he wanted to talk, I took it in my stride. Why wouldn't I? He was a former Special Forces Green Beret, he said. A CIA runner. He also said that the information he had was best not divulged over the telephone. So we arranged to meet. Nothing unusual in that.

What was unusual, though, was what the American told me, not at our first meeting, but at a subsequent one some months later. On this occasion he said he'd been made aware of an imminent prime-target assassination, that "one of the most prominent figures on the world stage" was about to be taken out, "within days from now", though he claimed he was unable to reveal who the target was.

"Watch the news networks. You'll know who it is soon enough." He added: "The media will tell you it was an accident. You'll know it wasn't."

I came away not knowing if I'd been fed a line or let in on the world's most terrible secret. And I had no way of finding out, either, other than to wait, and watch the news.

I didn't have to wait long. Because a week later the “accident” the American had alluded to was all over the news: the assassination he'd forewarned me about had happened.

Of course, at this stage I had no idea I was being set up. Only that I'd been told something I wished I'd never been told. And that, because I had, I now faced the most terrifying challenge of my life — to get to the truth before the intelligence agencies got to me …

  

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