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@@@@@ ?I?m leaving,? said Jason Bourne, taking Bernardine?s automatic off the desk and putting two grenades in his pocket?Do you mind?? Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM 262 ?Be my guest,? replied the Deuxi?me, reaching under his jacket and removing a second weapon from his belt?Pickpockets so abound in Paris one should always carry a backupBut what for?? ?I?ve got at least a couple of hours and I want to look around ?Alone?? ?How else? If we call for support, I risk being gunned down or spending the rest of my life in jail for an assassination in Belgium I had nothing to do with Former judge of the first circuit court in Boston, the once Honorable Brendan Patrick Prefontaine, watched the weeping, disconsolate Randolph Gates as he sat forward on the couch at the Ritz-Carlton hotel, his face in his widespread hands ?Oh, good Christ, how the mighty fall with such a thud of finality,? observed Brendan, pouring himself a short bourbon on the rocks?So you got snookered, RandyYour facile brain and your imperial presence didn?t help you very much when you saw Paree, huh? You should have stayed ?down on the farm,? soldier boy ?My God, Prefontaine, you don?t know what it was like! I was setting up a cartel?Paris, Bonn, London and New York with the Far East labor markets?an enterprise worth billions when I was taken from the Plaza-Ath?n?e and put in a car and blindfoldedThen I was thrown into a plane and flown to Marseilles, where the most horrible things happened to meI was kept in a room, and every few hours I was injected?for over six weeks! Women were brought in, films taken?I wasn?t myself!? ?Maybe you were the self you never recognized, Dandy BoyThe same self that learned to anticipate instant gratification, if I use the phrase correctlyMake your clients extraordinary profits on paper, which they trade on the exchanges while thousands of jobs are lost in buy-outsOh, yes, my dear royalist, that?s instant gratification ?You?re wrong, Judge?? ?So lovely to hear that term again ?The unions became too strongIndustry was being crippledMany companies had to go overseas to survive!? ?And not talk? Oddly enough, you may have a point, but you never considered an alternative Regardless, we strayYou emerged from your confinement in Marseilles an addict and, of course, there were the films of the eminent attorney in compromising situations ?What could I do?? screamed Gates?I was ruined!? ?We know what you didYou became this Jackal?s confidence man in the world of high finance, a world where competition is undesirable baggage better lost along the way ?It?s how he found me to begin