Аннотация
THE PRODIGAL SPY
Joseph Kanon
Copyright © 1999 by Joseph Kanon
For David and Michael
Part I
Un-American Activities
Chapter 1
February 1950
HE WAS NOT allowed to attend the hearing. There was his age, for one thing, but he knew it was really the reporters. From his bedroom window he could see them every morning when his father left the house. Mr Benjamin, his father’s lawyer, would come for him–it was somehow unthinkable that he should make the short walk down 2nd Street to the Capitol alone–and the minute they were down the steps Nick would see the clusters of hats swooping toward them like birds. There was even a kind of ritual about it now. No one stood in front of the house. Usually they were across the street, or on the corner, drinking coffee from paper cups, exhaling little puffs of steam in the cold February air. Then the front door would open and they would stamp out their cigarettes, suddenl...
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