Midnight in Crystal City

by R. R. Beach

When Michael, a private contractor working for a government agency, gets stuck in Crystal City due to contract issues, the stage is set for his life to get turned upside down. His wife died in a car crash long ago, and his only daughter refuses to take his calls or see him even though she’s only a few miles away on the Beltway. Lonely and unable to sleep in his stale hotel room, Michael takes a late-night walk through the empty complex—where a huge homeless man, Ben, emerges and asks for a cigarette. Michael is sure he’s getting mugged, but instead Ben shares that he was part of an outlandish Cold War plot to use Olympic athletes to assassinate a top Russian official at the Moscow Olympics. And he speaks of a shadowy CIA agent known only as “Blue Ties.” Events are set in motion when Michael is invited to the government agency’s summer picnic at Great Falls—a place where the threads of Michael’s life will converge in a stunning conclusion.

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