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jacking up a step with bricks, watched the bearish old
physician, carrying a small bundle, get into his car with a
young black woman. A private nurse for Peggy
Strummer, Hayes assumed.
Back inside, hiding on the toilet until dinner was
ready, the editor found his clandestine place in a novel
in which a tough, cynical, idealistic loner had to choose
among facing a court-martial for helping a noble
German officer to escape, allowing Goring to succeed
in kidnapping Stalin, reconciling a breach between the
British and American high commands, or minding his
own business and finding somebody to love. Finally, by
page 420, he had done all four. Hayes grunted and
threw the book in the trash can. He pulled another off
the toilet bowl lid. A tough, cynical, idealistic loner was
going to rescue a brilliant female geneticist from a
Communist stronghold in the Alps. True, Hayes did not
find these stories very interesting. But he did prefer
them to his own.
chapter 50
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