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14The Abu Nidal Organization had a leak somewhere in Europe. Obvious to Lyle. Obvious to anyone paying attention. My face was hot. I kept my eyes on my hands, curled around the pile of cables. Downstairs, Jadwiga stood in the hall by my office. I glanced inside. A scrawny Marine named Shawn knelt in front of the book case. He pulled volume one of the Foreign Affairs Manual from the bottom shelf and felt behind it and the adjacent books. He pulled out volume nine and repeated the process. Matt crawled from under my desk and ran his hand down between it and the wall. Jadwiga stopped me from entering the room. “They’re searching for a bomb.” Her voice was too high and too loud. She put her hands over her mouth and trembled so violently her breasts moved beneath the thin fabric of her dre

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