Harry Palmer 4_Billion Dollar Brain by Len Deighton

Author:Len Deighton
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Computers, Artificial Intelligence, Espionage, Fiction
ISBN: 9780425053553
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 1982-05-14T23:00:00+00:00

'Right,' said Dawlish. 'Well that's official. That's not your Free-fact-men or whatever they call themselves. That's the U.S. State Department speaking through the Cabinet. That's your orders. That's official.' Dawlish took off his spectacles arid pinched the bridge of his nose while closing his eyes as tightly as possible. When he opened them he seemed mildly surprised that I, and the whole office, hadn't disappeared. We looked it each other deadpan for a moment or so. When he spoke again he spoke very slowly. 'Speaking personally,' Dawlish said, 'I hope that Harvey Newbegin isn't found anywhere in my territory. I hope Newbegin stays well away from here and gets arrested somewhere like Helsinki. I'll then arrange that his playmates - Dr Pike and company - are put into the bag by someone like the Porton Security people. All nice and quietly parochial. But if it's done the other way, with us arresting Harvey Newbegin and the story about these Pike brothers stealing viruses from Porton being told to an American interrogator, the whole thing will blow up into a big front-page sensation.

We can't serve D notices to newspapers in America, my boy.'

'Your point is well taken, sir,' I said 'That's why I would like you to come off this case,' said Dawlish. 'At the next stage you are going to come up against all manner of problems because you are too close to the personalities involved.'

'I must stay on it for exactly that reason.'

'The authorities in their infinite wisdom have decreed that I run this department,' Dawlish said in a good-natured way. 'So don't cast me as Don Quixote to your Sancho.'

I said, Then perhaps you would stop casting me as Sam Weller to your Pickwick.'

Dawlish nodded wisely. 'Are you sure that you could do all that might be needed?' he asked. 'It could mean a bit of brute strength and ignorance. I mean ... Newbegin, well, you know. He can be a rough customer.'

'I'll see to it,' I said. 'Satisfaction guaranteed.'

'My satisfaction has precedence.'

'Yes,' I said. Dawlish picked up the shiny brown sphere that the Midwinter organization gave each of its graduates.

'Soil of Freedom,' I explained.

'Yes.' Dawlish shook it, sniffed it and listened to it. 'I thought someone had been soiling it.'

"It's American dirt,' I said.

Dawlish put it back on the desk. 'Well we don't want any of that,' he said. 'We've got enough dirt of our own.'

Chapter 22

I spent the next three days like a cat watching mouseholes. Harvey Newbegin had been at the game a long while. He ignored the instructions on his Brain sequence and he kept well away from all the people we were watching. On the other hand our people in Leningrad didn't catch a sight of him either. On the evening of the third day I left the office about six and went to Schmidt's to pick up some groceries. When I got back to the parked car and switched the phone on, the operator was putting out an urgent repeat call. 'Oboe ten, oboe ten, Northern Car Hire control to oboe ten.

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