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CHAPTER NINE

WHAT did women want?

Men had been asking that question for centuries

Caleb had debated it for e dorms, in Marine barracks, over beers with his fellow spooks at the hush-hush cainia ency

He’d never come up with an answer

Nobody had

Travis had summed it up

“Babes don’t knohat they want,” he’d said “If you’re tender, you’re a wuss If you’re tough, you’re insensitive You’re never sh, in which case you’re a lost cause”

Thirty thousand feet above flyover country, Caleb grimaced into his tumbler of Scotch

That’s what he was A lost cause

“Dalass and took a long, war s

This ti a client

Noas … What?

A m

an on a tightrope All he could do was put one foot in front of the other and not look down