The Infiltrators
““Yes, sir,” I said, making a face at Madeleine over the phone. We were in my motel unit, and she was half rereading the newspaper stories and half listening, sprawled in one of the large chairs by the window in the unladylike fashion that seems to go with jeans. “Yes, sir,” I said. “But I would like to protest, sir. Here I am in my rusty tin suit playing knight errant or something to a distressed lady while there’s work of national importance peculiarly suited to my talents and training…”
It ha...d not been the crime of a wild-eyed gent with a cheap rifle and a political grievance, or an unbalanced youth with a target pistol trying to attain some kind of national importance, any kind, as long as it made the headlines. It had been a systematic and well-organized commando raid, somewhat similar to the Sadat assassination, executed by six men with automatic weapons of the submachine-gun persuasion, exact make unspecified. The chief executive had survived through the devotion of a couple of Secret Service men who’d thrown themselves into the line of fire and hustled him back into his car, taking a good many bullets in the process.MoreLess
It ha...d not been the crime of a wild-eyed gent with a cheap rifle and a political grievance, or an unbalanced youth with a target pistol trying to attain some kind of national importance, any kind, as long as it made the headlines. It had been a systematic and well-organized commando raid, somewhat similar to the Sadat assassination, executed by six men with automatic weapons of the submachine-gun persuasion, exact make unspecified. The chief executive had survived through the devotion of a couple of Secret Service men who’d thrown themselves into the line of fire and hustled him back into his car, taking a good many bullets in the process.MoreLess
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