Secret Agent 2021 - Emma Hix

The first man rounded the pillar. She stabbed the pen into the soft flesh of his throat, not deep enough to kill, just deep enough to paralyze the vocal cords and drop him. She took his gun, a sleek Czech CZ 75, and fired three times. Two hits. One ricochet. The second man fell.

"The shot in your hand," Thorne said, his voice soft, "isn't poison. It's the Paradox itself. If you inject me, I don't die. I just forget. I forget why I ran. I forget that I ever loved you like a daughter. I become a blank slate for Control to rewrite." emma hix secret agent

But she also had the one thing Control could never erase: the choice to be free. The first man rounded the pillar

"Your mission," Control continued, "is not to retrieve the formula. It's to retrieve Thorne. Alive. And find out why he ran." Two hits