Savant

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Special thanks to Doug Grad, and to Stan S. Lavsky, who urged his actors to play well,or play badly, but play truly."

Prologue

Washington, D.C.

Merciful dog crap.

"You rang, your horse-ship?" The man at the desk next to Sonny Shoenburgen's aide asked.

"I'm supposed to reclassify about four hundred and seven fucking things in the Whirlwind. Like I have the time and all." The Whirlwind was a data warehouse for the combined-nudge, nudge, wink, wink-intelligence community. "Dead-and-buried Sixties shit."

"Phoenix?"

"SAUCOG," he said, giving it the onomatopoetic acronym by which the Special Advisory Unit was known around Langley, Fort Meade, Foggy Bottom, and assorted heirs and assigns.

"Downgrading or upgrading?"

"That's what's funny. I'm supposed to run down all this stuff on one of their assets, this fun guy who was a mass murderer they had doing wet work in Nam, Cambo, and Laos-now get this-I'm not supposed to NR the stuff. It all gets an 'Officially Deleted.' Is that brilliant?"

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