The Man with Many Faces | Chapter 12

On a cool, windy day in spring of 2021, Jack returned to the site of his family home in rural Pennsylvania.

With it came a flood of memories.

This is 438 Allegheny Road, the house where I lived for five, six, seven years.

I forgot exactly the number of years.

But that was the time when the FBI introduced themselves.

And...

As I'm looking at the property, it still looks the same as when I bought it.

It's a multi-level sort of, it has three roof lines.

It's a very attractive house.

A two-car garage, nice

chimney.

Despite thriving in the hustle and bustle of New York City for so many years, the countryside was more to his liking.

It reminded him of his childhood days in rural Eastern Germany.

We are a mile west

of the Delaware, about 11 miles south of Stroudsburg, which is where the Pocono starts.

So it's very hilly, very picturesque, and very, very rural.

The safety and sense of security of their home had also served to lower Jack's defenses over the years, as if he had never been an agent to begin with.

In fact, he felt so safe that he ceased all measures that would have allowed him to detect that the FBI had started tracking him.

It would be many years after the fateful day when the FBI stopped him on the bridge that he finally learned who his next-door neighbors really were.

had no idea i was not suspicious that anything would happen that people would be on now after so after nine years of not having had any interaction with law enforcement yeah disappear from sight and never see germany again this was all out of my mind and so that's when when when riley showed up at that bridge you know all of a sudden the floodgates opened and and all my my The memories that I had put way back into my head and locked them up, they all came rushing back in.

Because I fundamentally had forgotten that I once was a spy.

you know here's a a spot that really brings back memories and i still remember just right after you know my first encounter with the fbi on that coming weekend i was weed whacking here and i had these thoughts going on in my mind what's going to happen what's going to happen you know i i just couldn't get rid of uh the speculation and and you know what could happen to the children uh do i have a chance can we continue to live the way we that was to hope the way we are living but

It was not a guarantee.

Joe Riley had led the investigation to bring Jack in and finally catch the spy that had been hiding in plain sight all of these years.

But what exactly do you do with an ex-KGB agent still living in the United States?