A Matter of Honor by Jeffrey Archer

Author:Jeffrey Archer [Archer, Jeffrey]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Fiction, General, Mystery & Detective, Europe, Suspense, Espionage, Action & Adventure, Suspense Fiction, Secret Service, Great Britain, Legacies, Icons, Fathers and Sons, Inheritance and Succession, Honor
ISBN: 9780312933548
Google: aTUGlORSWF0C
Amazon: 0312933541
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1987-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

PROFESSOR BRUNWELD was rarely treated with any respect. It was the fate of academics, he had long ago concluded. “The President” was all they had said and he had wondered if he should believe it. Certainly they had got him out of bed in the middle of the night and escorted him silently to the Pentagon. They wanted Brunweld’s expert opinion, they assured him. Could it be possible? After Cuba and Dallas he’d begun to believe anything was possible.

He had once read that the Pentagon had as many floors below the ground as above it. He could now confirm that as an established fact.

Once they had handed him the document they left him alone. He studied the clauses for over an hour, and then called them back. It was authentic, he told them, and if the Russians were still in possession of their copy, also signed in 1867, then his adopted country was—what was that awful American expression? ah, yes—in all sorts of trouble.

He began to realize how serious it was when they told him he would not be allowed to leave the Pentagon until Monday. That didn’t surprise him once he’d seen the date on the bottom of the treaty. So it was to be three days of solitude away from his demanding students and chattering wife. He would never have a better opportunity to settle down and read the collected works of Proust.

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