Maddie Cochran gazed intensely at the monitor at her desk at Vauxhall Cross. She couldn’t believe that 2013 was nearing its end, with the damp, cold weather already setting in. She had been at MI6 headquarters for about six months after spending over four years in Cairo, her longest assignment yet. On the screen was an image of Mark Luck, the Global News reporter who had been accused of complicity in her sister’s death by Alain de Couillon, the reporter with Press Libre. She had read the reports of her death so many times she almost had them memorized, and she was angry that no serious investigation of Laura’s death had occurred since she was killed over two years earlier, despite protests from her family and many of her sister’s left-wing colleagues in the media. Nothing could be expected out of Libya, with the chaos following Gaddafi’s ouster continuing unabated. But why hadn’t anyone in the British judiciary bothered confronting Luck or at least sought information from him?
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