Francine Mathews The Cutout

This book is dedicated with love to Rafe Sagalyn, literary agent and friend, who made me write it;

and to Barbara, the original Mad Dog. I'd never have survived the Farm without you.

Cutout: A third person used to conceal the contact between two people — usually an agent and a handler who do not want to meet because one or both may be under surveillance.

—Norman Polmar and Thomas B. AI. Len

The Encyclopedia of Espionage