The Kremlin Painter

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by Titan Ma·Self-published·101,823 wordswords
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A disgraced art forger is blackmailed into copying a classified satellite photo for the CIA, but the painting hides a message that gets his handler killed. Now he must decode his own betrayal before the next drop goes wrong.

Table of Contents (80 chapters)

Chapter 1 The Forger's Hand1018wordsChapter 2 The Offer1907wordsChapter 3 Underworld1391wordsChapter 4 The Photo1302wordsChapter 5 First Attempt1158wordsChapter 6 Blackmail1323wordsChapter 7 The Handler1277wordsChapter 8 Double Cross1140wordsChapter 9 The Message1101wordsChapter 10 Blood on Canvas1317wordsChapter 11 Safe House1132wordsChapter 12 The KGB1183wordsChapter 13 Extraction1285wordsChapter 14 Dead Drop1183wordsChapter 15 The Kremlin1112wordsChapter 16 Portrait of a Spy1165wordsChapter 17 Ashes1094wordsChapter 18 The Counterfeit1051wordsChapter 19 Red Line1164wordsChapter 20 Final Brushstroke1092wordsChapter 21 The Note1199wordsChapter 22 The Underpainting1248wordsChapter 23 The Framer1119wordsChapter 24 The Switch1280wordsChapter 25 The Next Drop1401wordsChapter 26 The New Client1272wordsChapter 27 The Route1348wordsChapter 28 The Ledger1336wordsChapter 29 The Mole1240wordsChapter 30 The Forger's Choice1472wordsChapter 31 The Unknown Wall1060wordsChapter 32 The Room Above the River1029wordsChapter 33 The Grandfather's Secret1013wordsChapter 34 The Door in the Wall992wordsChapter 35 The Last Painting1027wordsChapter 36 The Light Changes at Dawn1264wordsChapter 37 The First Exhibition1059wordsChapter 38 The Network Reborn994wordsChapter 39 The Last Drop1101wordsChapter 40 The Painter's Truth1020wordsChapter 41 The Man at the Door1467wordsChapter 42 The Painting That Never Existed1745wordsChapter 43 The Second Wall1866wordsChapter 44 The Names Beneath the Plaster1626wordsChapter 45 The Brush That Waits1775wordsChapter 46 The Door from the Other Side1676wordsChapter 47 The Courier2035wordsChapter 48 The Name That Was Crossed Out2016wordsChapter 49 The Second Name1997wordsChapter 50 The Man on the Bridge1777wordsChapter 51 The Clockmender's Room1640wordsChapter 52 The Second Man on the Wall1284wordsChapter 53 The Meridian Letter1285wordsChapter 54 The False First Wall1151wordsChapter 55 The Attaché1195wordsChapter 56 The Father's File1262wordsChapter 57 Lot 471030wordsChapter 58 Atelier Bruckner1118wordsChapter 59 Two Silences1324wordsChapter 60 The Reader's Hand1170wordsChapter 61 The Noon Appointment1103wordsChapter 62 The Crate from Vienna1055wordsChapter 63 The Boy Who Held the Keys1254wordsChapter 64 The Night on the Water1072wordsChapter 65 Page Thirteen1130wordsChapter 66 The Empty Halo1091wordsChapter 67 The Corrections Column1048wordsChapter 68 The Second Open Session1051wordsChapter 69 The Fire on the Canal1055wordsChapter 70 North Along the River1052wordsChapter 71 What the Photograph Weighed1303wordsChapter 72 The Attendant's Ledger1136wordsChapter 73 The Change of Gauge1218wordsChapter 74 An Examination Is Arranged1148wordsChapter 75 Nothing That Writes1272wordsChapter 76 The Institute of Roads1119wordsChapter 77 The Bend Below the Embankment1209wordsChapter 78 What the Wall Says1292wordsChapter 79 The Reading at Midnight1246wordsChapter 80 The Key and the Seal1169words

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