Carmine Delmonico - 02 - Too Many Murders by Colleen Mccullough

Author:Colleen Mccullough [Mccullough, Colleen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery
ISBN: 9781223004723
Google: JbDEhNk-WIsC
Amazon: 1223004724
Goodreads: 6786313
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2009-11-30T13:00:00+00:00

“How good’s your Russian?” he asked Dr. Erica Davenport bluntly. “The Russian boyfriend hone your grammar too?”

“Oh, you are a busy boy!” she said, tapping the end of a gold pencil on her desk.

“It can’t be a secret. It’s in your FBI file.”

“Am I to infer that you believe the FBI have cleared me of suspicion in their espionage investigation?” she asked coolly.

“The FBI is the FBI, a law unto itself. In my eyes it does not clear you of suspicion,” Carmine said.

“I had a Russian boyfriend in my teens, I admit, and I happen to pick up languages very easily. A Smith professor gave me a special course in Russian grammar and literature out of sheer gratification at finding someone interested. I also toyed with the idea of going into the State Department as a diplomat. Satisfied?”

“How much of this does the FBI know?”

“Clever Captain Delmonico! You know I didn’t mention the boyfriend, yet you knew about him. Someone in the FBI slipped.”

“Bigger organization, more chance of slips.” He tilted his head and considered her. “What happened to the passion?”

“Excuse me?”

“The passion. At twenty you were full of it.”

Her smile resembled a sneer. “I don’t think so.”

“I do, and you’ll never convince me otherwise. Your aspirations for humanity burned your brain like red-hot pokers. You were going to change the world. Instead, you joined it.”

The face had gone pinched, pale. “I think…” she said slowly, “I think I found new outlets for my passions, if by that you mean youthful dreams. I discovered that women are not equipped to change the world, because the power resides with men. They assert it both physically and psychically. First things first, Captain. We must acquire power, that is our primary objective at this time.”

“We? Our?”

“The monstrous regiment of women.”

“Knox was a woman hater as well as a dirty old man.”

“But think of the power he wielded! Then name me a female equivalent. You can’t. Old men can deflower young girls with impunity when they control and direct the thoughts of others.”

“Are you tied to Dr. Pauline Denbigh and the feminists?”

“No.”

“Is Philomena Skeps?”

She laughed. “No.”

Carmine got up. “I’d like to meet Dr. Duncan MacDougall.”

“Why? To badger him the way you did my secretary?”

“I hardly think so. He’s director of Cornucopia Research.”

“I see. Power again. Underlings can be badgered, chiefs are sacrosanct.” She picked up a file. “Do your worst,” she said, sounding bored. “He makes his own appointments.”

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