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A CRASH COURSE IN SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS
Back in the American Midwest—two days after the c*****e at First Church and the abduction of the bride—FBI Agent Marvin Rothschild and Columbus Police Detective David Stoudemeir sat in a small conference room in a federal office building downtown Columbus where two academicians were presenting them with a crash course in South African politics and its economy, which, as it turned out, was much more than either of the two law enforcement officers had bargained for.
The clock on the wall of the window-less conference room read 9:00 p.m. Yawning he stretched his long limbs; Agent Rothschild could not contain his fatigue. Yet, this was his agency, and these two academicians had direct access to his superiors. The last thing he wanted was for one of
