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--And Devious the Line of Duty, by Tom Godwin
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Title: --And Devious the Line of Duty
Author: Tom Godwin
Illustrator: Schelling
Release Date: September 12, 2007 [EBook #22585]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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--And Devious the Line of Duty
Sometimes the most diligent and loyal thing an old man can do is fumble, drink beer, and let a young man get into trouble....
by Tom Godwin
Illustrated by Schelling
"We're almost there, my boy." The big, gray-haired man who would be Lieutenant Dale Hunter's superior--Strategic Service's Special Agent, George Rockford--opened another can of beer, his fifth. "There will be intrigue already under way when this helicopter sets down with us. Attempted homicide will soon follow. The former will be meat for me. You will be meat for the latter."
Rockford was smiling as he spoke; the genial, engaging smile of a fond old father. But the eyes, surrounded by laughter crinkles, were as unreadable as two disks of gray slate. They were the eyes of a poker player--or master con man.
"I don't understand, sir," Hunter said.
"Of co