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“We’ll both find out if that’s a fact, won’t we?”
“Do we have a problem?”
“I want the ground rules clear so there won’t be one,” said the West Coast-bred Soviet“I don’t
approve of your being permitted in hereRegardless of my former address and the way I may
sound, I haven’t much use for Americans
“Listen to me, Ben,” interrupted Bourne, his eyes forcing the trainer to look at him“All things
considered, I don’t approve of your mother still being in prison, either, but I didn’t put her there
“We free the dissidents and the Jews, but you insist on keeping a fifty-eight-year-old woman
who was at best a simple courier!” whispered the Russian, spitting out the words
“I don’t know the facts and I wouldn’t be too quick to call Moscow the mercy capital of the
world, but if you can help me—really help me—maybe I can help your mother
“Goddamned bullshit promisesWhat the hell can you do?”
“To repeat what I said an hour ago to a bald-headed friend of yours in the plane, I don’t owe my
government a thing, but it sure as hell owes me
“I will because I’ve been ordered to, not because of your conBut if you try to learn things that
have nothing to do with your purpose here—you won’t get outClear?”
“It’s not only clear, it’s irrelevant and unnecessaryBeyond normal astonishment and curiosity,
both of which I will suppress to the best of my ability, I haven’t the slightest interest in the
objectives of NovgorodUltimately, in my opinion, they lead nowhereAlthough, I grant you,
the whole complex beats the hell out of Disneyland
Benjamin’s involuntary laugh through the straw caused the foam onhis milk shake to swell and
burst“Have you been to Anaheim?” he asked mischievously
“I could never afford it
“We had diplomatic passes
“Christ, you’re human, after allCome on, let’s take a walk and talk some turkey
They crossed over a miniature bridge into New London, Connecticut, home of America’s
submarine construction, and strolled down to the Volkhov River, which in this area had been turned
into a maximum security naval base—again, all in realistic miniatureHigh fences and armed “U
Marine” guards were stationed at the gates and patrolled the grounds fronting the concrete slips that
held enormous mock-ups of the stallions of America’s nuclear undersea fl