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PART 3

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Robert Webster walked out the east White House portico toward the staff parking

area. He'd excused himself from the press conference briefing, leaving his

suggestionsmostly anticipated questions-with one of the other aides. He had no time

for protective presidential routines; he had far more important problems to control.

To orchestrate, really.

The leak to Roderick Bruce would result in damaging rumors circulated throughout

every important office-Senate, House, Justice, Defense-and then exploding into

headlines. The sort of headlines that would destroy the effectiveness of any

subcommittee chairman and reduce a subcommittee itself to rubble.

Webster was pleased with himself. The solution for Mario de Spadante led directly to the elimination of Trevayne. With amazing clarity. The only extra bonus needed was throwing Paul Bonner to Roderick Bruce.

The rest was already established as much as was necessary. The close working

relationship between De Spadante and Trevayne. De Spadante's meeting Trevayne late

at night in Connecticut when the subcommittee chairman was supposed to be away on

subcommittee business. Trevayne's first trip to Washington with Mario as traveling

companion. The limousine ride from Dulles Airport to the Hilton. Trevayne and De

Spadante together in Georgetown at the home of a less-than-welcomed attache of the

French government, a man known to be involved with the American underworld.

It was all that was needed.

Andrew Trevayne and Mario de Spadante.

Corruption.

When De Spadante was murdered in New Haven, his death would be attributed to a Mafia war. But it would be in print and on the news programs that Trey^yne had been at his hospital bedside a week before the murder.

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Corruption.

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Trevayne

It was all going to be all right, thought Webster, as he turned left up Pennsylvania Avenue. De Spadante would be eliminated, and Trevayne effectively removed from Washington.

Trevayne and De Spadante had become too unpredictable. Trevayne could no longer be

trusted to go through \ him to the President. Trevayne had covered extraordinary

| ground-from Houston to Seattle-yet the only request f he'd made was for

information about De Spadante. Nothing else. That was too dangerous. Ultimately

Trevayne could be killed, if need be, but that could backfire into a full-scale

investigation. They weren't ready for that.

De Spadante, on the other hand, had to be killed. He'd gone too far, infiltrated too deeply. Webster had brought the mafioso into the Genessee picture originallyand solely-to solve waterfront problems easily controlled by Mafia commands. Then De

Spadante had seen the enormous possibilities of aiding powerful men in high federal

places. He didn't let go.

But De Spadante had to be eliminated by his own. Not by elements outside his world;

that could prove disas-i trous. He had to be murdered by other De Spadantes.

Willie Gallabretto understood. The Gallabretto family -both blood and

organizational-was getting fed up with the muscle theatrics of its Connecticut

relative. The Gallabrettos were the new breed; the slim, conservatively groomed

college graduates who had no use either for the Old World tactics of their forebears or the pampered, long-haired dropouts of the "now" generation. j They fell beautifully in between, within the borders of respectability-almost Middle America respectability. If it were not for their names, they'd be farther up a hundred thousand corporate ladders.

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