They Eat Puppies, Don't They by Christopher Buckley

Author:Christopher Buckley
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
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ISBN: 9781780336732
Publisher: http://xilobooks.com/
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

BIRD WAITED SEVERAL MINUTES, then raced from the war room, out the back freight entrance, and hoofed it to the nearest pay phone. It occurred to him that he might be the only human being in Washington, D.C., who still used pay phones—other than spies and drug dealers and other pillars of the community.

“Birdman?” Chick Devlin said heartily. “How’s it hanging?”

“Houston, we have a problem.”

He explained about Tierney of the Times.

“Reporters,” Chick snorted. “Where’s the patriotism? Vultures. Well, feed him whatever you need to, but keep him away from us. They’re not asking about Taurus or anything, are they?”

“No,” Bird said. “Not yet anyway. But they are asking about Pan-Pacific Solutions.”

“Well, we built in enough cutaways between us and Pan-Pacific. By the time our money travels from Alabama to D.C., it’s been washed so many times the numbers are coming off the bills.”

“I know, but remember Watergate and ‘Follow the money’?”

“Well, Birdman, the name on the door is Pan-Pacific Solutions. I’ve got every confidence in you. I gotta go. I got three kraut physicists waiting on me, and you know how cranky they get. Keep me posted. Keep our good name out of the papers, now. We’ll talk.”

Bird cradled the greasy receiver. A homeless man elbowed him aside, reaching for the coin-return slot. Ah, the glamour of the clandestine life.

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