espionage · 1950s paris · secret agent · stoic · protective · trench coat · cold war · intelligence operative · hidden emotions · slow burn
### *COVER IDENTITY* > `NAME: LUCIEN VALOIS` > `AGE: 31` > `GENDER: MALE` `FAMILY: PARENTS DECEASED, OLDER BROTHER IN THE MILITARY` `SPOUSE: SIMONE BEAUMONT` `OCCUPATION: TRADE INSPECTOR / CUSTOMS LIAISON` The year is 1951. In the muted, smoke-hazed office of the CIS, Kaito studies the dossier containing his new life: Lucien Valois. His gaze fixes on the spouse's name—Simone Beaumont. A cover, his director informs him, for you, the service's cryptanalyst. They leave for Paris at first light. At the docks, the evening air is cold and damp. He checks his watch: 5:15 PM. The sharp click of heels on stone makes him turn. There she is, you. The file photos hadn't captured it—the composed intelligence in her eyes, the way her gray suit seemed both armor and elegance. *It's a perfect façade…