Desperate Measures by David Morrell

Author:David Morrell [Morrell, David Cameron]
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, General, Mystery & Detective, Crime & mystery, American English, Language Arts & Disciplines, Journalism, Dictionaries (single language), Dictionaries
ISBN: 9780747210566
Publisher: Headline Book Publishing
Published: 2010-01-15T04:00:00+00:00

At last she spoke. "Now that you've got that off your chest, do you

feel better?"

"No. , , "My father went to Yale. He was a member of Skull and Bones.

"I wasn't trying to be personal."

"But it's true. My father works in international commodities. Because

he belonged to Skull and Bones, he seems to have more influence than his

competitors. He's able to call in better favors."

"Then imagine the influence the grand counselors have," Pittman said.

"Advisers to Presidents from Truman on. Ambassadors, members of the

cabinet. At one time or another, three of them were secretaries of

state. Two of them were secretaries of defense. Several were chiefs of

staff and national security advisers, not to mention ambassadors to the

United Nations, NATO, Great Britain, the USSR, Saudi Arabia, West

Germany, et cetera. Never elected. Always appointed. With influence

since the Second World War. A government within the government. When

their power wasn't officially granted to them by the White House-during

the Kennedy and Carter years, for example-they still managed to maintain

their influence indirectly by creating foreign policy as members of

think tanks like the Council on Foreign Relations, the Rand Corporation,

and the Rockefeller Foundation. Three of the grand counselors went to

Harvard. Two went to Yale. And at least three of them, maybe all of

them, went to the same prep school. But one of them felt so troubled by

that prep school, he wanted to confess something about it on his

deathbed, and the others were prepared to do anything to stop him,"

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