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    Blown: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story: FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd Mysteries, #3
    Blown: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story: FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd Mysteries, #3
    Blown: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story: FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd Mysteries, #3
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    Blown: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story: FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd Mysteries, #3

    By Diana Deverell

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    Dawna's hot on the trail of a renegade NSA contractor. Mickey Cartwright "blew the whistle" on US cyber surveillance of European leaders and was charged with espionage. Now, he's emerged from his Russian sanctuary to testify at a European Justice Court.

    The Court is meeting secretly in Poland a few miles from the Russian border. Dawna manages to snatch her target and escape into a December blizzard. But others also have plans for Cartwright. With death at their heels, Dawna and her prisoner dash over snow-capped hills and through frosty woods, desperate to outrun a ruthless pursuer.

    Editor and best-selling writer Kevin J. Anderson praised "Blown" as an "entertaining spy caper . . . very real and exciting" when he introduced the story in Pulse Pounders, the January 2015 Kobo Special edition of Fiction River anthology magazine.

    As a bonus, this ebook of "Blown" also includes "Polonaise: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story" originally published in 2001 in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. Her first visit to Poland—but not her last.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSorrel Press
    Release dateJul 25, 2015
    ISBN9781516321247
    Blown: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story: FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd Mysteries, #3
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    Diana Deverell

    Diana Deverell has published seven novels, a short fiction collection, and many short stories. Her latest project is a series of legal thrillers set in Spokane and featuring Nora Dockson, a lawyer who specializes in appeal of life imprisonment and death penalty sentences. The first, Help Me Nora, was released in July, 2014. The second, Right the Wrong, was released in March, 2015. The third book will be published in late 2015. For the latest update, visit Diana at www.dianadeverell.com Diana made her debut as a novelist in 1998 with a series of international thrillers featuring State Department counterterrorist analyst Kathryn “Casey” Collins: 12 Drummers Drumming, Night on Fire, and East Past Warsaw. The three novels are also available in a single ebook, The Casey Collins Trilogy. Diana’s short story, "Warm Bodies in a Cold War", originally published in 1996 under a different title, introduced Casey to the readership of the Foreign Service Journal. The prequel No Place for an Honest Woman expanded on Casey’s early career. The story and all four thrillers are now available as individual ebooks. In 2000, Diana’s short fiction starring FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd started making regular appearances in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. Her mystery collection, Run & Gun: A Dozen Tales of Girls with Guns includes eleven Dawna Shepherd stories first published by Alfred Hitchcock, plus all-new “Latin Groove”. Both the collection and “In Plain Sight,” her 2013 mystery, are available in e-editions. Dawna’s latest adventure, “Blown,” appeared in the Kobo Special Edition of Pulse Pounders, the Januaury 2015 issue of Fiction River anthology. In 2012, Diana released her comic mystery novel, Murder, Ken Kesey, and Me as an ebook. Other digital editions include "Heart Failure", a short story set on the day Jim Morrison died, written to order for a publisher of textbooks for Danish teens learning English. Diana is a member (and past board member) of the International Association of Crime Writers. She belongs to the American Women’s Club in Denmark and her short fiction has appeared in Good Works: Prose and Poetry by Ex-Pat Women in Denmark.

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      Blown - Diana Deverell

      BLOWN

      A Dawna Shepherd Short Story

      By Diana Deverell

      Published by Sorrel Press

      www.sorrelpress.com

      Table of Contents

      BLOWN: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story

      BLOWN

      AUTHOR NOTE

      SPECIAL BONUS STORY - POLONAISE

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      OTHER EBOOKS BY DIANA DEVERELL

      COPYRIGHT

      BLOWN

      One

      Monday night at eight-fifty-five, Polish time, a covey of midget helicopters burst through the half-open clerestory windows in the banquet hall.

      FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd kicked into arrest mode.

      No point waiting five minutes to execute the diversion she’d planned. An invasion of drones broadcasting Ride of the Valkyries was better.

      Plus, they were blasting oily smoke at the four Russian thugs guarding the traitor she was busting.

      Dropping a plate of duck bones back on the table, she reached into her apron pocket to retrieve the syringe.

      Now, she said to her partner.

      Stumpy Jan Grabowski hunched down and bulled through the melee. Civilians leaping to avoid the sooty cloud entangled themselves with pistol-waving gunsels batting at the drones.

      Jan’s broad shoulders and low center of gravity cleared a path to the two men now rising from their seats at the head table.

      Jan threw himself at Filip Volkov, knocking the spy-handler to the floor and subduing him with a blow to the temple.

      She pushed into the opening and identified herself to the second man.

      She added, I’m arresting you, Mickey Cartwright, for violation of the US Espionage Act.

      Syringe poised, she saw Mickey raise his arms and stopped herself mid-jab.

      You don’t need that, he said. I surrender. Let’s get out of here.

      Follow me.

      She pivoted as if she’d just stolen a basketball at midcourt. She counted on Jan to cover Mickey’s back.

      A week ago, the Bureau had confirmed that Mickey—another renegade NSA contractor who’d become a self-styled whistleblower —was being transported from Russia to this three-hundred-and-fifty acre estate turned tourist destination in northeast Poland.

      She’d been tasked with his apprehension.

      Dawna had recruited the Polish police detective for the op not only because he was strong enough to carry Mickey’s sedated body from the building; equally important, Jan’s cop instincts were impeccable.

      She led them quickly into the hotel kitchen.

      Jan grabbed a too-conveniently-available metal rod to bar the swinging doors behind them.

      They crossed the steamy room at a run. The air smelled of roast duck. The kitchen was inexplicably empty of staff.

      Dawna readied herself to dash through the employee parking lot to the Renault ambulance she’d tucked under a bushy pine tree. She yanked on the door.

      A gust of wind slapped snowflakes into her eyes. She scrubbed them away. Four inches of icy whiteness blanketed the ground. Flakes fell so thickly, they blurred the lights at the edge of the lot.

      She cursed silently.

      The forecast had predicted the blizzard would arrive tomorrow morning, not tonight. She’d counted on open roads for their getaway.

      These Europeans and their endless official dinners preceding any event, including a judicial hearing. With the frequent toasts and interminable smoke breaks, it had taken four hours to get from welcome drinks to the main course.

      Snow must have started falling while she was serving the steak tartare. Thick stone walls and the overhanging roof had kept any flakes from drifting through the ceiling-high windows to alert her.

      Her Renault had neither four-wheel drive nor tire chains.

      Could it get them to their destination in these whiteout conditions?

      With

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