2024/173: Deck the Halls in Secret Agents — Aster Glenn Gray

2024/173: Deck the Halls in Secret Agents — Aster Glenn Gray

Christmas crashed over George again like an ocean wave: the brass quartet, the bright swags of holly along the mantelpiece, the smell of wood smoke from the fireplace. Somewhere behind him, a glass broke, and people shrieked with laughter. [loc. 111]

M/M romantic novella. It's Christmas 1991, and American spy George Douglass is somewhere in the wilds of France, searching for an abandoned chateau whose attics supposedly harbour compromising letters which can be used against a Soviet general. ( Read more... )