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?The escaped Canadian economist,? broke in Marie, ?hunted by the authorities all over Europe
for multiple killings in Zurich in tandem with the theft of millions from Swiss banks! Those kinds
of headlines never leave a person, do they? They can be refuted, proved to be totally false, yet still
there is that lingering doubt?Where there?s smoke there must be fire,? I believe is the bromideMy
own colleagues in Ottawa dear, dear friends I?d worked with for years were afraid to talk to
me!?
?Wait a minute!? shouted Bourne, his eyes again flashing at David?s wife?They were false?it
was a Treadstone ploy to pull me in?you were the one who understood it, I didn?t!?
?Of course I did, because you were so stretched you couldn?t see itIt didn?t matter to me then
because I?d made up my mind, my very precise analytical mind, a mind I?d match against yours
any day of the week, my sweet scholar
?What??
?Watch the road! You missed the turn, just the way you missed the one to our cabin only days
ago?or was it years ago??
?What the hell are you talking about??
?That small inn we stayed at outside the BarbizonYou politely asked them to please light the
fire in the dining room?we were the only people thereIt was the third time I saw through the
mask of Jason Bourne to someone else, someone I was falling deeply in love with
?Don?t do this to meIf only for myself nowI have to know you?re thereA U-turn on the grand-route and the driver pressed the accelerator to the floor?I?m
here,? whispered the husband, lifting his right arm and pulling his wife to him?I don?t know for
how long, but I?m hereI just want to hold you in my arms
?And I want to call the children
?Now I know I?m here
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?You?ll tell us everything we want to know voluntarily or we?ll send you up into a chemical orbit
your hacks never dreamed of with DrPanov,? said Peter Holland, director of the Central
Intelligence Agency, his quiet monotone as hard and as smooth as polished granite?Furthermore, I
should elaborate on, the extremes to which I?m perfectly willing to go because I?m from the old
school, paisanI don?t give a shit for rules that favor garbageYou play cipher with me, I?ll deepsix
you still breathing a hundred miles off Hatteras in a torpedo casingAm I clear??
The capo subordinato, thick plaster casts around his left arm and right leg, lay on the bed in
Langley?s deserted infirmary room, deserted since the DCI ordered the medical staff to get out of
hearing range for their own g
