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"Tell hi lot"

"Be serious The old guy is madder than a stepped-on rattler

Raised hell with the Justice Departation to find out as behind the bo To him, an attack on you is an attack on NUMA"

"The FBI nosing around my apartment and office?"

Giordino nodded "No less than six of them"

"And reporters?"

"I lost count What did you expect? The blast that disintegrated your car thrust your naht Instant celebrity First bomb explosion the city's had in four years Like it or not, old friend, you've become the eye of the storm"

Pitt felt a h for them to atte at their flanks, digging deeper into their secrets with each bite But why the overreaction?

The fake announcement of his discovery of both the San Marino and the Pilottown no doubt alerted them Yet it shouldn't have thrown them into a panic Min Koryo wasn't the panicky typepoint demonstrated by the fact she did not respond to the doctored story

How then did they realize he was so close?

Bougainville couldn't have tied him to the computer penetration and planned his death in such short order Then the revelation struck him The notion had been there all the ti to pursue it because it did not fit a pattern, Now it burst like a flare

Bougainville had linked Men to the Eagle

Pitt was so engrossed in thought he didn't hear Giordino telling him he had a phone call

"Yourtoward Cabot the bartender, as holding up the bar phone

Pitt walked over to the bar and spoke in the mouthpiece "Hello"