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| ?You saved our personnel in five or six sector crises when
all the indicators said you were wrongHowever, Charlie?s got a legitimate querySuppose it isn?t
Carlos? We not only send the wrong message to Europe, but, more important, we?ve wasted time
?So stay out of Europe,? mused Alex softly, again as if to himselfGo after
the bastards herePull them in and break themI?m the target, so let them come
after me
?That would entail far looser protection than I envisage for you and DrConklin,?
said the director firmly
?Then disenvisage, sir Alex looked back and forth at Casset and Valentino, suddenly raising
his voice?We can do it if you two will listen to me and let me mount it!?
?We?re in a gray area,? stated Casset?This thing may be foreign-oriented, but it?s domestic turf
The Bureau should be brought in??
?No way,? exclaimed Conklin?Nobody?s brought in outside of this room!?
?Come on, Alex,? imitation rolex watch said Valentino kindly, slowly shaking his headYou can?t
give orders here
?Good, fine!? shouted Conklin, awkwardly getting out of the chair and supporting himself on his
cane?Next stop the White House, to a certain chairman of the NSA named McAllister!?
?Sit down,? said the DCI firmly
?I?m retired! You can?t give orders to me
?I wouldn?t dream of it, I?m simply concerned for your lifeAs I read the scenario, what you?re
suggesting is based on the questionable supposition that whoever fired at you last night in tended to
miss, not caring whom he hit, only determined to take you alive during the subsequent chaos
?That?s a couple of leaps??
?Based on a couple of dozen operations I?ve been involved with both here and at the Department
of the Navy and in places you couldn?t pronounce or know anything about The director?s elbows
were planted on the arms of his chair, his voice suddenly harsh, female silver cartier watch commanding?For your
information, Conklin, I didn?t suddenly bloom as a gold-braided admiral running naval intelligence
I was in the SEALs for a few years and made runs off submarines into Kaesong and later into
Haiphong harborI knew a number of those Medusa pricks, and I can?t think of one that I didn?t
want to put a bullet in his head! Now you tell me there was one, and he became your Jason Bourne?
and you?ll break your balls or bust open your heart to see that he stays alive and well and out of the
Jackal?s gun sightsSo let?s cut the crap, AlexDo you want to work with me or not??
Conklin slowly sank back in his chair, a smile gradually emerging on his lips?I told you I had
no sweat with your appointment, sirIt was just intuition, but now I know whyYou were a field
man
?Good, fine,? said the director?We?ll work up a controlled surveillance and hope to Christ your
theory that they want you fake white chanel watches alive is correct because there?s no way we can cover every window or
every rooftopYou?d better understand the riskAnd since two chunks of bait are better than one in a tank of piranhas, I want to talk to Mo
Panov
?You can?t ask him to be a part of this,? countered Casset?He?s not one of us, AlexWhy
should he??
?Because he is one of us and I?d better ask himIf I didn?t, he?d give me a flu shot filled with
strychnineYou see, he was in Hong Kong, too?for reasons not much different from mineYears
ago I tried to kill my closest friend in Paris because I?d made a terrible mistake believing my friend
had turned when the truth was that he had lost his memoryOnly days later, Morris Panov, one of
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the leading psychiatrists in the country, a doctor who can?t stand the chicken-**** psychobabble so
popular these days, was presented with a ?hypothetical? hermes bag psychiatric profile that required his
immediate reactionIt described a rogue deep-cover agent, a walking time bomb with a thousand
secrets in his head, who had gone over the edgeOn the basis of Mo?s on-the-spot evaluation of
that hypothetical profile?which he hours later suspected was no more hypothetical than
Campbell?s soup?an innocent amnesiac was nearly blown away in a government ambush on New
York?s Seventy-first StreetWhen what was left of that man survived, Panov demanded to be
assigned as his only head doctorHe?s never forgiven himselfIf any of you were he, what would
you do if I didn?t talk to you about what we?re talking about right now??
?Tell you it?s a flu shot and pump you full of strychnine, old boy,? concluded DeSole, nodding
?Where is Panov now?? asked Casset
?At the Brookshire Hotel in Baltimore under the name of Morris, Phillip MorrisHe called off
his appointments today?he has the vintage cartier watch for sale |
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