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.Brass tacks, lad.Dan Wilhite has told me of Chief Exley's potentially provocative fixation on the Kafesjian family, with you as his agent provocateur.Lad, will you confess your opinion of what the man wants?"Sidestep: "I don't like him any more than you do.He got chief of detectives over you, and I wish to hell you'd gotten the job.""Grand sentiments, lad, which of course I share.But what do you think the man is doing?"Feed him--my Johnny snitch prelim."I think--maybe--he's sacrificing Narco to the Feds.It's a largely autonomous division, and _maybe_ he's certain that the Fed probe will prove successful enough to require a scapegoat that will protect the rest of the Department _and_ Bob Gallaudet.Exley is two things: intelligent and ambitious.I've always thought that he'll get tired of police work and try politics himself, and we know how tight he is with Bob.I think--_maybe_--he's convinced Parker to let Narco go, with his eye on his own goddamn future.""A brilliant interpretation, lad.And as for the Kafesjian burglary itself, and your role as Exley's chosen investigating officer?"I ticked points: "You're right, I'm an agent provocateur.Chronologically: Sanderline Johnson jumps, and now Noonan hates me.The Southside Fed probe is already rumored, and the Kafesjian burglary occurs coincident to it.Coincident to _that_, I operate a pinko politician who's enamored of Noonan.Now, the Kafesjian burglary is nothing--it's a pervert job.But the Kafesjians are scum personified and tight with the LAPD's most autonomous and vulnerable division.At first I thought Exley was operating Dan Wilhite, but now I think he put me out there to draw heat.I'm out there, essentially getting nowhere on a worthless pervert 459.It's a one--I mean _two_-man job, and if Exley _really_ wanted the case cleared he would have put out a half-dozen men.I think he's running me.He's playing off my reputation and running me."Dudley, beaming: "Salutary, lad--your intelligence, your lawyer-sharp articulation.Now, what does Sergeant George Stemmons, Jr., think of the job? My sources say he's been behaving rather erratically lately."Spasms--don't flinch."You mean your source Johnny Duhamel.Junior taught him at the Academy.""Johnny's a good lad, and your colleague Stemmons should trim his disgraceful sideburns to regulation length.Did you know that I co-opted Johnny to the Hurwitz investigation?""Yeah, I'd heard.Isn't he little green for a case like that?""He's a grand young copper, and I heard that you yourself sought to command the job.""Robbery's clean, Dud.I'm looking out for too many friends working Ad Vice."Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.htmlHo-ho, wink-wink."Lad, your powers of perception have just won you the undying friendship of a certain Irishman named Dudley Liam Smith, and I am frankly amazed that two bright lads such as ourselves have remained merely acquaintances all these many years."SNITCH DUHAMEL.DO IT NOW."On the topic of friendship, lad, I understand that you and Bob Gallaudet are quite close."Hallway noise--grunts/thuds/"Dave Klein my friend!"Lester--sweat box row.I sprinted over--door number 3 was just closing.Check the window-- Lester handcuffed, dribbling teeth--Breuning and Carlisle swinging saps overtime.Shoulder wedge-I snapped the door clean.Breuning--distracted--huh?Carlisle--blood-fogged glasses.Out of breath, pitch the lie: "He was with me when Wardell Knox was killed."Carlisle: "Was that a.m.or p.m.?"Breuning: "Hey, Sambo, try to sing 'Harbor Lights' now."Lester spat blood and teeth in Breuning's face.Carlisle balled his fists--I kicked his legs out.Breuning yelped, bloodblind--I sapped his knees.That brogue:"Lads, you'll have to release Mr.Lake.Lieutenant, bless you for expediting justice with your splendid alibi."CHAPTER TWENTY-ONEDear Mr.Hughes, Mr.Milteer:Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.htmlOn the dates of 11/11, 11/12 and 11/13/58, Glenda Bledsoe participated in actively publicizing performers currently under contract to Variety International Pictures, a clear legal breach of her contract with Hughes Aircraft, Tool Company, Productions et aI.Specifically, Miss Bledsoe allowed herself to be photographed and interviewed with actors Rock Rockwell and Salvatore "Touch" Vecchio, on matters pertaining to their acting careers outside the production/publicity confines of _Attack of the Atomic Vampire_, the motion picture all three are currently involved with [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]