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profitable. It includes all the groups or governments
who lack the expertise to construct their own nukes,
or who don't want to pay for the R and D, or who
want something they know will work the first time."
"Your basic, off-the-rack, ready to wear nuclear
holocaust," Delahunt said.

"And the worst of all possibilities," Dr. Wethers
added grimly, "a buyer who intends to let it rip."
Delahunt typed in a command, and the rows of
names, dates and numbers vanished from her wall
screen, replaced by moving images. The recent sur-
veillance video showed an impeccably dressed Sergio
Ishmael Eshamani strolling on the Champs-Elys6es.
The short, stoutly built man was dwarfed by leggy
Parisian high-fashion models clinging to either elbow,
while stone-faced bodyguards brought up the front
and rear of the formation.
As the video loop recycled, Delahunt zoomed in
tight on the arms dealer from the shoulders up.
Eshamani's most startling feature was his head, which
he shaved to minimize the effect of an extreme case
of pattern baldness. What hair he had grew black and
thick in oddly shaped and widely spaced islands--the
pair of blotches atop his high forehead reminded
Kurtzman of the horn buds of a young goat. If the
top of Eshamani's head was thin in the hair depart-
ment, his cheeks, chin and neck more than made up
for it: they were shadowed by a dark beard so heavy
that he had it scraped off three times a day.
Though Eshamani and his various enterprises had
been under CIA and Justice Department surveillance
for nearly two decades, it wasn't until recently, when
he began moving large quantities of liberated Soviet
war mat6riel, that his operation had become a priority
concern of the U.S. government. Even though the
level of scrutiny had increased, there had been no
direct proof, only strong suspicions of his entry into
the illicit nuclear trade. Then, six weeks earlier, Jus-
tice had received a tip from an unnamed overseas
source that linked a Panamanian-registry cargo ship




to the in-progress transfer of Soviet-manufactured ce-
sium to Libya.
Operating on secret orders from the President, re-
layed through Hal Brognola, the White House liaison
to Stony Man, Phoenix Force had intercepted the sus-