By Order of the President

DCI."

"Why-not admitting it for a minute, of course-would he say something like that?"

"Well, he probably decided that taking foreign journalists to bed after the most brief of associations was dangerous behavior for a regional director of the CIA-a married woman-and that the agency ought to know about it."

Patricia Wilson glowered at Mary Leonard.

"Your friend is not a German journalist, Mrs. Wilson," Mary Leonard said.

"He's an American, an intelligence officer working directly under the president to find flaws in the Intel community. And he found one.

She locked eyes with her and let that sink in.

"I think this conversation is over, Mrs. Wilson, don't you?" Mary Leonard asked.

Patricia Wilson stalked angrily out of the DCI's office.