“I assure you, Deputy Director, that this invasion of your privacy was totally unsanctioned by me.”
“Really?” I wouldn’t taunt him with his lack of control over his people. That wouldn’t be professional. It also wouldn’t be to my advantage, at least not at this point. “I’m sure you can understand that I’m less than pleased to learn about this, and I’d like to speak with your man. Or am I being chauvinistic? Should I say woman?”
“No, no, it’s a man, but he’s out of the country just now.”
“When will he return?”
Lynx didn’t want to tell me. I could almost feel him forcing his will against mine, trying to get me to back down, but I’d been in the business too long to do something as amateurish as that, and finally he conceded, but only to a small degree.
“Pierre de Becque is on an extremel
