A Man to Take a Chance On
By Tinnean
Max Futé thought he was in good shape—he was a doctor, after all, and knew how to take care of his body—but he was having second thoughts about it as he climbed the stairs to the tenth floor in the building that housed the Washington Bureau of Intelligence and Security. He tried to breathe as easily as the man who jogged up beside him, but he wasn’t really succeeding.
Mark Vincent, deputy director of Interior Affairs in the WBIS, had offered him the position of chief doctor. The offer was in part because Max had made sure Vincent’s lover had survived his kidnapping and torture by Prinzip, an antiterrorist organization located in Paris and run by a madman, but also because Max was a competent doctor.
His actions hadn’t been entirely altruistic. His m
