The Tourist: A Novel by Olen Steinhauer

Author:Olen Steinhauer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Thrillers, Fiction - Espionage, Thriller, Hard-Boiled, Fiction, Undercover operations, Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled, Officials and employees, American Mystery & Suspense Fiction, Espionage, Spy stories, Central Intelligence Agency, Mystery & Detective, Suspense, United States.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2010-02-16T04:46:41+00:00

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NOON BRIEFING

U.N. Headquarters, New York

Wednesday, June 20, 2001

U.N. Mission in Sudan Discusses Ways to Further Assistance to the Implementation of Peace Agreement

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The UN Mission in Sudan, in today's briefing, notes that, over the weekend, the acting Special Representative for Sudan, Taye Brook Zerihoun, met with the State Minister to the Presidency, Idris Abdel Gadir.

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Their discussion focused on a proposal to hold high-level consultations between the UN Mission in Sudan and the

Government of National Unity to make the Mission's

assistance to the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement more focused and effective.

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Meanwhile, the UN Mission reported that yesterday, an

international NGO-hired vehicle traveling in South Darfur was shot at by an unknown armed man.

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On that same day in West Darfur, an international NGO

convoy of two vehicles with five staff members was stopped by two unknown armed men, and the staff was robbed of

personal effects and communication equipment.

Following this was an article from, of all things, the Chinese People's Daily, dated September 25, 2004: SUDANESE GOVERNMENT FOILS COUP PLOT. Sudan foiled a plot by Islamists to overthrow the government on Friday afternoon, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. Elements of the Popular Congress (PC) headed by jailed Islamist leader Hassan al-Turabi planned to carry out the plot in Khartoum at 2 p.m. (1100 GMT) right after the Friday prayers, said the statement. . .

That was three years ago; now, with the murder of Mullah Salih Ahmad, the rebellion was in the streets.

It was hard to concentrate. The rumble of the transmission gave him an ache in his lower spine. He was still sore from his acrobatics and short on sleep. He wanted to call Tina, to hear her voice and Stephanie's. He wanted to know exactly where they were.

Later, as he drove, Milo rubbed his face, staring into the midnight highway darkness. His mind wandered. He thought that in spy films or television shows, there was always a clear objective. A tape of a conversation that proved some important fact. A man who had the answers to a specific question. These stories were enjoyable for their very simplicity. The truth was that intelligence work seldom, if ever, ran in straight lines. Facts accumulated, many of them useless, some connecting and then disconnecting. It took a patient, trained eye to figure out which to hold on to and which to lay aside. Angela had had that kind of eye. He didn't know if he had it.

"Whoa!" said Einner, rising from sleep.

Milo blinked, then swerved the car back onto the highway.

"You suicidal or something?"

"Sorry."

"Let me take over." Einner sat up; he licked his teeth. "Where are we?"

"Just crossed over. Here." Ahead was a sign: EXIT1

GENEVE-CENTRE

LAPRAILLE

CAROUGE

PERLY

They argued over which hotel to check into. Milo wanted something small and inconspicuous, like De Geneve. "That flea pit?" said Einner.

"Jesus, Milo. You want to kill us before we've had a chance to fight?" De Geneve was not a flea pit, but Einner had made it a habit on his unlimited Tourism expense accounts to stay in the finest lodgings a city had to offer.

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