Book Excerpt
“Babe, why
don’t you wear that clingy black top anymore? I like how it makes your little
breasts into gotta-have handfuls.”
“Stop.
Right there.” Brow furrowed, Peri eyed Jack over the noisy schuuuck of
the milk steamer as he sat before the coffee shop’s cash register and worked a
crossword puzzle on his tablet. Beyond him through the large windows, a January
snow sifted down in a sedate hush, the unexpected pristine white beautiful
until it hit the ground and was churned into a slushy brown by steady foot
traffic and slow cars. She knew the top in question, and though she’d never
wear it again, she couldn’t throw it away. It was good for dinner out and
breaking in all at the same time. Finding that combination was hard—even if it
had been ages since she’d done either.
“That
apron isn’t hiding anything,” Jack continued, clearly enjoying her irritation
as she looked down at the cream-and-black cotton that said uniform. “You think
these suits are here for your glass four-gen connection?”
“I said stop.”
She hadn’t seen Jack in three weeks—not since some fool kid had tried to pull a
stab-and-grab. She’d thought Jack might be gone for good. Yet there he sat at
her counter, looking like sex incarnate, his expression earnest in question as
his blue eyes watched her, half-lidded behind his tousleable blond hair.
His stubble was thick—just the way she liked it—and she could imagine the whiff
of electronics he so excelled in. My God, he’d been good. They both had
been. Maybe he’s here because I saw Silas.
That had
been four days ago, but her diary—hidden among her cookbooks for the first
three days—had kept him at the forefront of her thoughts until she’d given in
to the nauseating will-I, won’t-I and cracked the binding last night. That
she’d found nothing in the first few pages but classes and grades had been both
a shock and a relief. Just the briefest mention of Allen and Silas. Apparently
Silas had been so stricken by his girlfriend’s death that he hadn’t seen her as
anything other than a chair that wasn’t empty. It was obvious her naive self
had been honored to have been chosen to help rout out the corruption in Opti,
perhaps a little egotistical even. But most special ops agents were. They had
to be to survive.
About the Book
Title: The Operator
Author: Kim Harrison
Genre: Thriller
THE OPERATOR is the
second installment in the brand-new suspense trilogy from Kim Harrison,
known as The Peri Reed Chronicles. Following the success of the first
book in the series, The Drafter, Peri Reed returns bigger and bolder than ever in this highly anticipated thriller.
Peri Reed’s job eats her mind, but for a special task agent in hiding, forgetting the past can be a blessing.
Betrayed by the man she thought she
loved and the agency who turned her into the very thing she fought
against, Peri abandoned the wealth and privilege of Opri for anonymity
riddled with memory gaps and self-doubt. But when a highly addictive
drug promises to end her dependency on those who’d use her as a tool for
their own success, she must choose to either remain broken and
vulnerable, or return to the above-the-law power and prestige she once
had: strong but without will—for whoever holds her next fix will hodl
her loyalty.
Yet even now as then, a love based on lies of omission might still save her life.
Author Bio
Kim Harrison, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling
Hollows series, was born in Detroit and, after gaining her bachelor’s
degree in the sciences, she moved to South Carolina, where she remained
until recently returning to Michigan because she missed the snow. When
not at her desk, Kim is most likely to be found landscaping her new/old
Victorian home, in the garden, or out on the links.
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