"Crawford Killian - The Empire of Time" - читать интересную книгу автора (Killian Crawford)

Permanent Deputy for Operations, a man who could found or topple empires,
and often did.

Pierce walked in, kicked off his shoes, and collapsed on the couch. "What is this
shit?"

Wigner tilted back in his swivel chair and put his slippered feet up on the desk.

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He grinned through his bushy gray mustache. He was a middle-sized man, bald,
pink-cheeked, and physically unimpressive. Pierce was some fifteen centimeters
taller, and had the physique of a racing-shell oarsman, but there was no question
who was boss.

"It's always the same shit," Wigner replied. He chose normal speech, and even
inflated it slightly. "When I heard about this problem, Jerry, I asked myself: Who
among my many fine Senior Field Agents has the brains, the guts, the
determination for this arduous and demanding assignment? Those were my exact
words. And of course the answer was you."

"How so?"

"In a minute. Tell me about Brother Thomas."

Pierce pulled a cassette from his breast pocket and scaled it across the office.
Wigner caught it with startling quickness.

"All on tape. The meeting went pretty well. Domestic politics: he wanted to
switch some Agency funds from medicare to highways and transport. A lot of
his people are unhappy about equal medical treatment for Black and Indian kids.
They really resent it when Testing time comes and we take just as many Blacks
and Indians as whitesтАФ"

"Some of whom will later come back to Beulah as Trained administrators."

"They do hate to see those Blacks using flickreaders and telling 'em not to pee in
the soup."



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"You brought Jefferson around?"

"Not really sure. The money stays in medicare, but we agreedтАФI agreedтАФto