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Tanya’s Crimean Campaign, as they now called it between themselves, had led him up and down embassy row and into both the Capitol Building, which was impressive, and the Pentagon, which was a little alarming. She was a true force of nature. Alex figured if anyone could actually achieve her so-unlikely objective, it would be Tanya Larina.
But Alex hadn’t yet been to the Library of Congress.
He hated not being able to check out the premises before escorting Tanya there, but that had been the pattern of much of their week.
The Library of Congress lay east across the street from the Capitol Building, just south of the pillared Supreme Court Building. The broad marble steps zigzagged around either side of a large fountain.
“It is the court of the Neptune King,” Tanya announced.
“King N
