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"I am committed to a course that makes no conditions for abandonment"

"When will these ridiculous secret projects ever end? You're nothing but a tool of the White House"

"I don't need that bleeding-heart, liberal crap from you"

"Gene, for God's sake, give it up!"

"It's not for God's sake, Dana, it's for my country's sake I'm sorry if I can't make you understand"

"Give it up," she repeated, tears for in her eyes "No one is indispensable Let Mel Donner take your place"

He shook his head "No," he said firray h to completion"

The waiter reappeared and asked if they were ready to order

Dana shook her head "I'ry" She rose from the table and looked down at him "Will you be home for dinner?"

"I'll be working late at the office"

There was no stopping her tears now

"I hope whatever it is you're doing is worth it," sheto cost you a terrible price"

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Unlike the Russian intelligence officer so often stereotyped in American motion pictures, Captain Andre Prevlov had neither bull-shoulders nor shaven head He was a well proportioned handsome man who sported a layered hairstyle and a e Italian sports car and a plushly furnished apart the Moscow River, didn't sit too ith his superiors in the Soviet Navy's Departence Yet, despite Prevlov's irritating leanings, there was little possibility of his being purged froh position in the department The reputation he had carefully constructed as the Navy's ence specialist, and the fact that his father was number twelve man in the Party, combined to make Captain Prevlov untouchable

With a practiced, casual lass of Boh the stack of files that his aide, Lieutenant Pavel Marganin had laid on his desk