10 Short Novels Magazine — page 19: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# War's Watchdogs, Page 17 This page contains story prose from what appears to be a spy or espionage thriller. The text depicts Hugh Allison, apparently a secret service agent, encountering and fighting an assassin (referred to as a "Thug") in a hotel. After the intruder escapes through French doors, Allison discovers the attacker has disappeared. The scene then shifts to Allison observing various people in a room, including Count Uchida and others he suspects of being spies. The narrative concludes with Dagmar (a woman) suggesting to Betty Barrow that they visit tea houses, which makes Allison suspicious that Dagmar may be plotting revenge against Betty. The prose is typical early-20th-century hardboiled spy fiction.