Frame-Up (2009)
“The cheerful sparkle of the hotel wake-up voice did nothing to relieve the incipient terror of awakening in Amsterdam with the day I had ahead.
After fortification at the world’s premier breakfast buffet at the hotel, I launched the plan that finally came together just before sleep the night before.
Mr. Devlin called to say that he had gotten Mr. Santangelo’s very tentative approval of my three million dollar idea. I took it the sell was hard, since the only thing Mr. D. had to back it up was h...is blind faith in me.
The first step was to rent a bicycle — no great feat in Amsterdam. Years ago, the city fathers took a shot at the intolerable automobile traffic by providing hundreds of white bicycles on the streets around the city. The Dutch took to bike riding like the Swedes to pickled herring, and the automobile traffic abated. Only two problems remained — theft of the bicycles, and the menace of hundreds of kamikaze cyclists.
The city next turned the free bicycles into cheaply rentable bicycles.MoreLess
After fortification at the world’s premier breakfast buffet at the hotel, I launched the plan that finally came together just before sleep the night before.
Mr. Devlin called to say that he had gotten Mr. Santangelo’s very tentative approval of my three million dollar idea. I took it the sell was hard, since the only thing Mr. D. had to back it up was h...is blind faith in me.
The first step was to rent a bicycle — no great feat in Amsterdam. Years ago, the city fathers took a shot at the intolerable automobile traffic by providing hundreds of white bicycles on the streets around the city. The Dutch took to bike riding like the Swedes to pickled herring, and the automobile traffic abated. Only two problems remained — theft of the bicycles, and the menace of hundreds of kamikaze cyclists.
The city next turned the free bicycles into cheaply rentable bicycles.MoreLess
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