"Clancy, Tom - Op-Center 04 - Acts of War" - читать интересную книгу автора (Clancy Tom)

Mozart of jurisprudence. I was reading my dad's
statute law books when I was twelve. When all
my friends wanted to be astronauts or baseball
players, I was thinking it'd be cool to be a bail
bondsman. I could've done most of this stuff when
I was fourteen or fifteen."
"Your suits would've been way too large,"
Katzen deadpanned.
Coffey frowned. "You know what I'm saying."
"You're saying you haven't lived up to your
potential," Katzen said. "Well, ditto,
ditto, and welcome to the real world."
"Being one disappointment among many doesn't make
it sit any better, Phil," Coffey replied.
Katzen shook his head. "All I can say is,
I wish I'd had you at my side when I
was with Greenpeace."
"Sorry," Coffey said. "I don't hurl my
body off ship decks to protect baby harp seals
or stop six-foot-six hunters from setting out raw
meat to draw out black
"I did both of those once," Katzen said. "I
got my nose broke doing one and scared the hell out
of the harp seal doing the other. The point is, I had
these pro bono slackers who didn't know a
porpoise from a dolphin.
What's worse was they didn't give a shit.
I was in your office when you negotiated our little
visit with the Turkish ambassador. You gave it
everything and you created a handsome piece.of work."
"I was dealing with a country that's got forty
billion dollars of external debt, most of it
to our country," Coffey said. "Getting them to see
our point of view doesn't exactly put me in
the genius class."
"Bull," Katzen said. "The Islamic
Development Bank holds a lot of Turkish
chits as well, and they exert a lot of
pro-fundamentalist pressure on these people."
"Islamic law can't be imposed on the
Turks," Coffey replied, "not even by a
fiercely fundamentalist leader like the one they've
got now. It says so in their Constitution."
"Constitutions can be amended," Katzen said.
"Look at Iran."
"The secular population in Turkey is much
higher," Coffey said. "If the Fundamentalists
ever tried to take over here, there'd be civil war."
"Who can say there won't be?" Katzen asked.
"Anyway, none of that is the point. You sprinted