By James Fenimore Cooper
A historic experience comparable to Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley romances, Cooper’s novel facilities on Harvey Birch, a typical guy wrongly suspected of being a undercover agent for the British.
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He ordered a gin and tonic from a waiter, sat, and looked at his watch. Two hours and ten minutes since the phone had rung in his room and he had hung it up. The last time he had worked in Jakarta, he’d been following orders from George Shreed. Now he would set up an operation to avenge him. It had an Asian air to it, like an episode in the tale of the Forty-Seven Ronin. He lifted the phone. Suburban Virginia. “Sleeping Dog was an NSA case, and then it was a Bureau case, and then it was a CIA case.
Bang. Not such a long shot, but iffy because of the visibility. Then noise and a lot of running around; I leave the gun, just like Oswald in Dallas; I head for the stairs — He raised his head to look at the steep, winding staircase, then craned to look down. There was better cover from the leaves where he was, one now-huge tree masking most of the front of Treetops. A sober man without a hangover could shinny down the old scaffolding unseen. Climb down, no sweat, there’s a lot of uproar, our team is making noise and providing a diversion—what?
On the left-hand wheel as you stand behind the gun. Okay? He leaves the mark, that means the clock is running and the first meeting time is next morning at nine-ten. ” “I want you to check Si Jagur every day, starting today. You’ll have to set up a route that takes you there, going someplace you usually go. ” Jerry wanted something sweet, which he hoped would absorb or minimize or anodize or do whatever the hell sugar did to alcohol. If the alcohol he’d taken in was still alcohol, and not some poisonous shit that it turned into after it hit the gut.