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methodically, expensively, fumigated the area, collected<br />

all the bodies, zipped them up in surplus bags, and<br />

trucked them out. Back at the rest stop, the corpses<br />

were packed into a supply van to transport them to the<br />

Boston naval base where Brickhart had some pals. And<br />

from there they would be flown in a surplus plane out<br />

into the Atlantic to meet en masse legitimate deaths,<br />

when their plane would "crash" on its way to a military<br />

conference on Martha's Vineyard. "Happens all the<br />

time," Hector Brickhart had said, in reference to planes<br />

lost at sea. "Well, not that often," said Thom, Dick, and<br />

Harry, who thought he meant multiple assassinations of<br />

American citizens by government agencies.<br />

The three desk men stood beside the van as the<br />

plastic bags were carried by. A soldier unzipped<br />

enough so that they could check the faces for the<br />

features of Wolton and Eagerly. They found neither.<br />

Except for one token black (the cook) and one<br />

token Jew (the chief of staff), all the faces, behind the<br />

twists of death, were young, bland, and hybridized<br />

Anglo-Saxon, the purest strain that of the Tennesseean<br />

janitor. The cook's bag was carried like a baby up to

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