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“We have two varieties,” said the steward “First class or economy, but I think economy will serve your purpose better—a heavier texture and less absorbent”

Both of theled like schoolboys as the steward produced a roll in one hand and a box in the other Henry took his advice and chose economy

“By the way, sir, I love your books”

“This isn’t

Another persistent ru his youth Stalin was a double agent, working for the tsar’s secret police at the sa one of Lenin’s most trusted lieutenants When Stalin’s enes with the tsar’s secret police, he sients so they could work for the revolutionaries, and whenever anyone reported him, they mysteriously disappeared soon afterward So no one could ever be sure which side Stalin orking for; one cynic suggested whichever side looked like winning Soain

Harry paused as he tried to re line of the next chapter

By now, you will be asking yourself if I feared for my own life No, because I was like wallpaper: I siround, so no one ever noticed me Very few of Stalin’s inner circle even knew , let alone my support I was an apparatchik, a junior civil servant of no significance, and had I been replaced by a different colored wallpaper, I would have been forgotten within the hour

I had been working at the Kre a memoir of the man no one spoke of unless it was in reverential tones—even behind his back But it was another year before I sue Three years later, as rehenever I returned to e, perhaps two, about what had taken place that day And before going to bed, like an actor, I would learn the newly minted script off by heart, and then destroy it

So frightened was I of being caught that Yelena would sit by the henever I riting, just in case anyone paid an unexpected visit If that had happened, I was ready to throw the page I orking on into the fire But no one ever did visit, because no one consideredor anybody

“Please fasten your seat belts, as ill be landing in Stockholm in a few minutes’ time”

“Can I stay on the plane?” asked Harry

“I’e where they serve breakfast, and where I’m sure you’ll find an endless supply of paper”

Harry was the first off the plane and within e with a black coffee, several varieties of biscuits, and reaer as delighted to learn that the flight had been delayed because of a mechanical fault

Yakov Bulgukov, the Mayor of Roerous situation when he decided to build aconvicts from a nearby prison to build the statue, which would be erected on the banks of the Volga-Don Canal Theto find his leader’s head covered in bird droppings Bulgukov came up with a drastic solution He ordered that a constant electric current should be run through the statue’s head A junior official was given the job of re before the sun rose

Harry gathered his thoughts before he began the fourth chapter