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"Carmen, are you making any progress over
there?" he asked.
"You tell me," she said. "I've been going through
Eshamani's known client list again. Running over
ground we've already covered, trying to see if we've
missed anything. Do you want the high points?"
"Go ahead," Kurtzman said.
"We've agreed that only a small segment of his
market is going to be interested in a chunk of high-
grade nuclear material or a functional nuclear
weapon. We've ruled out the U.S. and South Amer-
ican drug gangs who've been buying Soviet-
manufactured autoweapons and conventional explo-
sives from him. For small-scale, purely economic
warfare, even the light artillery, and the ground-to-air
and ground-to-ground, wire-guided missiles in his
east European inventory are overkill. The client in
this case has got to have big-time political motives."
"Assuming that whoever's buying the goods isn't




interested in a quick resale to another party," Tokaido
added without taking his eyes from his monitor's
screen.
"Eshamani's too sharp a dealer for that," Kurtz-
man countered. "You can be sure his price off this
stuff is so high that a second middleman couldn't
make a decent profit."
Dr. Wethers swiveled his chair and glanced up at
the dais. "So that still leaves us chasing every two-
bit terrorist group and Third World dictator on the
planet," he said.
"Not quite," Delahunt said. "To make a big bang
from scratch, you need highly skilled people and a
well-equipped research facility. Which means major,
long-term capital investment. Which means a govern-
mental or quasigovernmental entity."
"But that assumes," Barbara Price said as she
walked up the wheelchair ramp, "as in the previous
Eshamani operation, we're simply dealing with the
sale of weapons-grade nuclear material. Or even sys-
tem subcomponents, like a target assembly scavenged
from a Soviet weapon scheduled for destruction.
Given the situation in the former republics, the num-
ber of functional nukes still in the field and the de-
teriorating security, we can't rely on Eshamani stay-
ing at the bits-and-pieces level of nuclear tech. The
market for an operational device is too huge and too