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direct a field assassin–the woman had been indirectly responsible for more than a dozen hits in<br />

the Med. The woman's real name was Cassandra Murphy, and according to the data supplied by<br />

Mr. Nu, she'd been born in Belfast. She was thirty-six years old.<br />

Adding to the challenge was the fact that he would have to gain control of the woman in order<br />

to communicate with her, which would probably be more difficult than simply shooting her.<br />

According to the information he had been given, the target was currently living on a houseboat<br />

moored in Lake Union. Years ago, there had been more of the floating domiciles, but a variety<br />

of government regulations and economic pressures had reduced the waterborne community to a<br />

few hundred water-level homes located on the lake and in neighboring Portage Bay.<br />

It wasn't clear how 47's superiors had been tracking Marla's movements prior to the massacre in<br />

Yakima, but there wasn't any doubt as to why, since The Agency routinely kept track of anyone<br />

who had ever been employed by one of its competitors. Especially those having links with the<br />

Puissance Treize.<br />

As he followed a side street down to the waterfront and the small parking lot that served the<br />

houseboats, a couple of problems quickly became apparent. The first was the cyclone fence and<br />

gate that had been put in place to prevent thieves, sightseers, and other undesirables from<br />

making their way out onto the community dock. The second was the fact that the area was so<br />

open that there was no place from which the assassin could safely observe his target's comings<br />

and goings prior to making a move.<br />

A red Mercedes was parked in the lot, though, and while there hadn't been an opportunity for<br />

him to memorize the license plate, the assassin would have sworn that it was the same vehicle<br />

he'd seen parked outside the barn in Yakima. A thick patina of dust seemed to confirm that<br />

theory, as 47 executed a U-turn and left the area.<br />

It was nearly dark by that time, the streetlights were on, and the orange-red sun was in the<br />

process of dropping behind the Olympic Mountains as the assassin searched for a place to stay.<br />

There weren't any mom-and-pop-style motels in the downtown area, but Agent 47 happened by<br />

a seedy motor inn on the west side of the lake. It met all of his requirements. According to a sign<br />

in the lobby, the proprietors were willing to let rooms by the hour, day, week, or month. So he<br />

registered as Mr. Metzger, paid for five days in advance, and carried his suitcases up to a<br />

second-floor room.<br />

The door opened into a claustrophobic space that was all too reminiscent of other hotel rooms<br />

he had stayed in over the years. The relatively early hour, along with the rhythmic thump, thump,<br />

thump of a bed hitting the wall next door, suggested that his neighbors were taking advantage<br />

of the motel's hourly rate.<br />

The energetic couple was still at it when 47 left shortly thereafter to return to the Volvo.<br />

His first task for the evening was to find dinner down by the water. That was easy enough to<br />

do, since there were plenty of restaurants along the lake's south shore. It was while he was<br />

looking for a place to park that Agent 47 stumbled across a nonprofit organization dedicated to<br />

the preservation and use of wooden boats. The organization also offered some boats for rent.

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