State of War

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— Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik

Solomon “Solly” Bretcher, the Democratic senator from Florida, looked down at the woman beside him.

She had said her name was Joan, and she was young. She’d claimed to be twenty-one when she’d picked him up at that bar back in D.C. — but she had smiled when she’d said it, just a little, just enough so that he had known she was lying. He thought she was probably closer to eighteen.

She was also very slim, almost boyish in her figure, and he believed she must have had some yoga or gymnastics in her background.

Athletic, strong and supple, cute as a bug, and young enough to be, what, his daughter at least. Maybe even his granddaughter.

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