My words.

Schott dealt with the Merrill Lynch man who handled Burlanes money. Burlane signed blank checks so Schott could pay his bills. Burlane signed blank tax forms and turned them over to the woman who did his taxes. Burlanes investment portfolio was a concern to Schott, not More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page Save Chuck Burlane. Burlane never asked how much blue ridge mountains

he had. He had access to cash if he wanted; all he had to do was sign his name. In Burlanes opinion a persons intelligence was best determined by dividing the sum of books read by the number of More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page Save Chuck items conspicuously consumed. Burlane had enough money to eat, drink, and have peridot

comfortable place to sleep. He drank local beer with friends, dark Jamaican rum and tonic on occasions where people wore ties, and smoked a joint with a girl friend now and then. He More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page Save Chuck drove a bilious yellow, eight-year-old Toyota Corolla hatchback. He owned enough clothes to fill his traveling valise. That invisible children

it. What is more-and this also was Burlanes idea-he was given a monthly lie detector examination over such things as the nature of recent purchases or any loans More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page Save Chuck or other indebtedness incurred. Every month the polygraph operator ended the examination with this question: Are you now or have you ever used your employment peridot

the Central Intelligence Agency for your personal benefit or gain? Burlane always looked the examiner square in the eye and said. Absolutely More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page Save Chuck not. The needles ran as straight as a bagman to the bank-with oary a hitch or hesitation. Another thing that impressed Schott-if not Neely-was Burlanes attitude toward the Company. Schott understood the mi lottery

dynamics of working in the secret world. Company employees were no less changed by their More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page Save Chuck work than were cops or newspaper reporters. It was the Companys duty to be paranoid, so those given to paranoia were encouraged, promoted, and listened to. The necessity of this paranoia was the snare of the secret ny lottery

The result, as inevitable as Mr. Murphys law, Burlane More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page Save Chuck maintained, was a series of foolish if not preposterous schemes the Company had come up with over the years, beauts like the plot to send Fidel Castro a wet suit with poisonous fungus impregnated in the rubber. Not wanting to screw up their mi lottery

for more power, More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page Save Chuck otherwise sane men committed themselves to outrageous, preposterous operations. Schott said John Kennedy could have used an irreverent delicate man when the Bay of Pigs adventure was conceived. Burlane had the capacity to remain calm while everybody around him was engulfed in the familiar manure More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page Save Chuck of Things Gone Wrong. Burlane golden girls

Neely and Schott that they lived in a pretend world, if he saw the flip side of everything, the cynical and the ironic, then that was because he was a realist. That was the human condition. He laughed, yes, but at More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page Save Chuck the unfolding of inexorable truths. The rest of them with peridot

solemn faces-the Neelys and Schotts of the world-were kidding both themselves and the public. They were naive at best, and demented at worst. James Burlane was also a veteran of the Big Muddy, or mud, as More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page Save Chuck the Company reps normally called it. This was officially VHD, short for Very Hazardous Duty. By golden girls

name, VHD meant a rep could get killed. Burlane had the seeming ability to slog unscathed through the most terrifying mud imaginable. It was decided that responsibility for Burlanes delicate More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page Save Chuck missions would be shared by Neely and Schott, who would serve as case officer. Schott was to Burlane what Ungar was to peridot

Schott was the firstborn, tidy, a left-brainer; Burlane was loose, randy, youngest, a right-brainer-said to be the model for Nicholas Orrs fictional spook, More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page Save Chuck Humper Staab, although Humper would never have worn one brown sock and one black sock to be interviewed by the President of the United States, which is what blue ridge mountains

did. After meeting Burlane, the President assented to his assignment as the Companys delicate man.

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