Parallax View

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Parallax View is dedicated to the selfless Americans who fight for freedom, toiling in obscurity, getting their hands dirty — and sometimes bloody — doing the jobs the politicians will never acknowledge, and the citizens will never know about.

Special thanks to Scott Carpenter for the outstanding cover art.

Tracie Tanner carefully eased one drawer closed and opened another in the dented, World War II-era metal filing cabinet wedged behind the desk of the general manager’s office at Shipyard No. 444. Where’s that damned file? She’d been searching for nearly half an hour already with no luck, unable to decipher the Soviets’ Byzantine filing system.

Her eyes burned from the strain of reading reports typed in Cyrillic on substandard Russian-made typewriters, and she could sense time ticking away — surveillance reports indicated the guards’ patrol patterns included a walk-through of this very office every forty-five minutes or so.

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