| It was a down-and-dirty Doperation that had the smell of rotten halibut, so
rotten it offended my nostrilsThis is different; this is Carlos
?That?s my point, AlexIt is Carlos, not a voice over the telephone neither of us knewWe?re
dealing with a known quantity, someone predictable??
?Predictable?? broke in Conklin, frowningIn what way??
?He?s the hunter
?He?ll examine it first with a very experienced nose, then check the spoors under a microscope
?Then we?ll have to be authentic, won?t we??
?I prefer foolproofWhat did you have in mind??
?In the gospel according to Saint Alex, it?s written that in order to bait a trap one has to use a
large part of the truth, even a dangerous amount
?That chapter and verse referred to a target?s microscopeI think I just mentioned itWhat?s the
relevance here??
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?Medusa,? said Webb quietly?I want to use Medusa
?Now you?re out of your mind,? responded Conklin, no louder than David?That name is as offlimits
as you chanel j10 watch knock off are?let?s be honest, a hell of a lot more so
?There were rumors, Alex, stories all over Southeast Asia that floated up the China Sea to
Kowloon and Hong Kong, where most of those bastards ran with their moneyMedusa wasn?t
exactly the secret evil you seem to think it was
?Rumors, yes, and stories, of course,? interrupted the retired intelligence officer?Which of
those animals didn?t put a gun or a knife to the heads of a dozen or two dozen or two hundred
marks during their so-called ?tours?? Ninety percent were killers and thieves, the original death
squadsPeter Holland said that when he was a SEAL in the northern operations he never met a
member of that outfit he didn?t want to waste
?And without them, instead of fifty-eight thousand casualties, there could well have been sixtyplus
Give the animals their due, AlexThey knew every inch of the territories, every square foot of
jungle in the triangleThey?we?sent back more functional intelligence than all the units sent out
by Saigon put cheap imitation chanel bags together
?My point, David, is that there can never be any connection between Medusa and the United
States governmentOur involvement was never logged, much less acknowledged; the name itself
was concealed as much as possibleThere?s no statute of limitations on war crimes, and Medusa
was officially determined to be a private organization, a collection of violent misfits who wanted
the corrupt Southeast Asia back the way they knew it and used itIf it was ever established that
Washington was behind Medusa, the reputation of some very important people in the White House
and the State Department would be ruinedThey?re global power brokers now, but twenty years
ago they were hotheaded junior staffers in Command SaigonWe can live with questionable
tactics in time of war, but not with being accomplices in the slaughter of noncombatants and the
diversion of funds totaling millions, both unknowingly paid for by the taxpayersIt?s like those
still-sealed archives that detail how so many of our fat-cat d |
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