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partner. Of course I’d watched enough movies to know they always traveled in twos.
    “So why didn’t you bring him in from the start?”
    “We thought it’d be easier to approach you if it was just one of us.”
    “Thought I’d more likely say yes to one than two. I admit it’s intelligent of you.”
    “I’ll bring him in, shall I?”
    “No. Make him wait in the car.”
    I said this mostly to retain a measure of control in the situation. I felt a little out of my depth to begin with. I didn’t want to feel more intimidated facing two of them this early on instead of one.
    “Sure. Any reason why specifically?”
    “Because I told you to. I’m already doing you a favor. If we warm up more in the future perhaps then you can bring him in. I’m still not entirely comfortable given the situation.”
    “Understood. It may present some problems in the future—with Bureau protocol and all—but this is an unusual case that may give cause for unusual procedures.”
    “Good.” I paused, sizing him up. “You must be top of your field given a case like this.”
    “You flatter.”
    “I’m serious.”
    “I do alright. I’ll get a little more into my background later on—as we build rapport.”
    Suddenly I had the odd thought of what it would be like to bed him and what a tool seduction might be with him should some unknown future circumstance require it. Looking at his ugly body and face, I hoped it would never come to that.
    “Mr. Carter—”
    “Call me Glenn, please.”
    He smiled.
    “Glenn, look. You seem to know a lot about my affairs, but you can’t tell me everything. Why is that? Would I have to submit a FOIA request?”
    He looked surprised.
    “You would probably be able to find out most things with a FOIA request. The Freedom of Information Act is—well, you know what it is.”
    “Something you don’t like very much I take it.”
    “I didn’t say that. And I haven’t really dealt in many cases where someone would take a FOIA request out on my activities. No, I may safely say, you’d be the first. Let me spare you the necessity of the request. May I speak to you off the record, Ms. Durant?”
    “Sophia.”
    “Sophia?”
    “You may.”
    “I must put it like this. We may or may not know certain things through certain channels which we’ve had to put our own sort of FOIA requests in to get.”
    “You mean subpoenas .”
    “Technically speaking—yes.”
    “You got my phone records, email, et cetera.”
    “I can’t confirm or deny any of that.”
    “I’ll take that as a yes .”
    “Take it in what sense you will. Nonetheless hear my meaning behind it.”
    “Which is…” I was growing impatient.
    “Which is…I’d be very careful if I were you.”
    “Is that a threat, Glenn?”
    “No. More of a…preamble if you will. I’m trying to help you.”
    “I’m not scared of the government.”
    “Let’s hope you have no reason to be.”
    “I don’t.”
    “Good. Then you will help us without a hitch.”
    “I will. And I am more than happy to.”
    “And that brings us to the core of what we came here to discuss—the heart of the matter.”
    “This is what I’ve been waiting for.” I shifted in my chair.
    “Good.”
     
    Special Agent Glenn Carter’s Notes
    November 2, Eleuthera Island, Bahamas
     
    It was in the course of the second meeting that I got into the mission I had for Ms. Durant. I must take a brief aside to jot down a few comments on the quality of the woman. She is very sharp, has a keen memory, and is highly knowledgeable in many subjects. Her highly attractive physicality is sometimes something of a distraction. But the more I am around her, the less I notice it. As to her knowledge, I was surprised for instance that she knew what a FOIA was. How many women of twenty-six years know that? She also appears to be very well read and knowledgeable of current events. According to her file, she knows something of computers given a background in computer science at