Аннотация
Robert Asprin & Jody Lynn Nye
License Invoked
Chapter 1
"Damn it to Hell anyway!"
Hearing the utterance of these words by the head of the United States Secret Service, his aide materialized in his office like a genie answering a magical summoning.
In actuality, the simile was not that far from the truth. The men had been together for years (a professional, working relationship, of course. It's not that kind of a book!) and the aide had long since learned that on the rare occasions his chief resorted to swearing, it was best to stand by even before being called. Even then it would sometimes be too late.
"Trouble, sir?" he said.
"Where have you been?" the chief snarled.
(See what we mean?)
"Sorry, sir. It won't happen again," the aide replied, deliberately bland of countenance.
Washington, D.C., was a city of power, both built on and undermined by petty tyrants and obscure pecking orders. One did not survive there being thin-...
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