Your surveillance is rotten and you know it, said Alex. They fall over toilet seats in the womens room when theyre chasing a guy. Not this time, for I chose them myself, insisted Krupkin. Outside of four of our own people, each trained in Novgorod, theyre defectors from the UK, America, France and South Africa-all with intelligence backgrounds who could lose their dachas if they screw up, as you Westerners say. I really would like to be appointed to the Presidium, perhaps even the Central Committee. I might be posted to Washington or New York. Where you could really steal, said Conklin. Youre wicked, Aleksei, very, very wicked. Still, after a vodka or six, remind me to tell you about some real estate our chargé daffaires picked up in Virginia two years ago. For a song, and financed by his