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He
’
d
need
eyes
,
legs
,
and
extensive
cosmetic
work
,
the
aide
said
,
but
that
could
be
arranged
.
New
plumbing
,
the
man
added
,
squeezing
Corto
’
s
shoulder
through
the
sweat
-
damp
sheet
.
Corto
heard
the
soft
,
relentless
dripping
.
He
said
he
preferred
to
testify
as
he
was
.
No
,
the
aide
explained
,
the
trials
were
being
televised
.
The
trials
needed
to
reach
the
voter
.
The
aide
coughed
politely
.
Repaired
,
refurnished
,
and
extensively
rehearsed
,
Corto
’
s
subsequent
testimony
was
detailed
,
moving
,
lucid
,
and
largely
the
invention
of
a
Congressional
cabal
with
certain
vested
interests
in
saving
particular
portions
of
the
Pentagon
infrastructure
.
Corto
gradually
understood
that
the
testimony
he
gave
was
instrumental
in
saving
the
careers
of
three
officers
directly
responsible
for
the
suppression
of
reports
on
the
building
of
the
EMP
installations
at
Kirensk
.
His
role
in
the
trials
over
,
he
was
unwanted
in
Washington
.
In
an
M
Street
restaurant
,
over
asparagus
crepes
,
the
aide
explained
the
terminal
dangers
involved
in
talking
to
the
wrong
people
.
Corto
crushed
the
man
’
s
larynx
with
the
rigid
fingers
of
his
right
hand
.
The
Congressional
aide
strangled
,
his
face
in
an
asparagus
crepe
,
and
Corto
stepped
out
into
cool
Washington
September
.
The
Hosaka
rattled
through
police
reports
,
corporate
espionage
records
,
and
news
files
.
Case
watched
Corto
work
corporate
defectors
in
Lisbon
and
Marrakesh
,
where
he
seemed
to
grow
obsessed
with
the
idea
of
betrayal
,
to
loathe
the
scientists
and
technicians
he
bought
out
for
his
employers
.
Drunk
,
in
Singapore
,
he
beat
a
Russian
engineer
to
death
in
a
hotel
and
set
fire
to
his
room
.
Next
he
surfaced
in
Thailand
,
as
overseer
of
a
heroin
factory
.
Then
as
enforcer
for
a
California
gambling
cartel
,
then
as
a
paid
killer
in
the
ruins
of
Bonn
.
He
robbed
a
bank
in
Wichita
.
The
record
grew
vague
,
shadowy
,
the
gaps
longer
.
One
day
,
he
said
,
in
a
taped
segment
that
suggested
chemical
interrogation
,
everything
had
gone
gray
.
Translated
French
medical
records
explained
that
a
man
without
identification
had
been
taken
to
a
Paris
mental
health
unit
and
diagnosed
as
schizophrenic
.
He
became
catatonic
and
was
sent
to
a
government
institution
on
the
outskirts
of
Toulon
.
He
became
a
subject
in
an
experimental
program
that
sought
to
reverse
schizophrenia
through
the
application
of
cybernetic
models
.
A
random
selection
of
patients
were
provided
with
microcomputers
and
encouraged
,
with
help
from
students
,
to
program
them
.
He
was
cured
,
the
only
success
in
the
entire
experiment
.
The
record
ended
there
.
