From:	"Paul J. Adam" <shadowtk@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:	Re: More Fun And Games
Date:	Sat, 29 Mar 1997 02:25:20 +0000

****PRIVATE: Chris D'Arkan
>>>>>[You're starting to think the way I am. This is part of what got
Ploughshare: she made a mistake with local talent and they turned on
her. All of a sudden she couldn't hire disposable help, and she was
short on her own people: so we could take her down. Haversham helped us
out there, too, which is why I consider her fairly credible.

And I agree with you on the idea that this might flow from inside the
UCAS. Ploughshare was NSA. The refugee operation in Calumet City needed
influence with the camp guards to have them not notice missing people.
Someone's been selling out our "advisors" in the Yucatan and getting
them killed. It does point to someone in the dreaded "military
industrial complex".

Who might fit the profile? That sort of ruthless, naked ambition? Try
just about everyone inside the Beltway. Not me <g> Not Coppinger, he
walked away from that crap, crusades against it in fact, and SIGA is
fairly clean: benefits of a small outfit, we all know each other too
well (Price still has to wear his prison shirt on Fridays, but he's used
to treating it as a joke now). But yeah, the list of candidates is
enormous, I really could give you thirty possibles without leaving our
leg of the D-ring.

And I know that sort of organisation exists, they breed like cancer
whenever there's a threat (real or percieved). The old Agency was one
such, before it was... cleaned up a little: one of the bigger ones, but
there are always more. And there are a lot of ex-SIGA hands who hanker
after the good old days of extrajudicial executions and warrantless
search-and-seizure, and have considerable abilities to bring to any new
groups dedicated to that aim.

As for talking to Maxim... it would be extremely embarrasing for me to
have "an accident" while I went to see them. Makes them look not only
vengeful but incompetent. Make no mistake, if they wanted me dead I'd
have been on a slab within a week of the hit on Phnom Penh: they've
skipped plenty of chances since. I think they'll listen to what I have
to say.

Oh, and Chris, lay off the bloodlust. I don't kill for pleasure, or
sometimes even from choice: wired reflexes can outrun conscious thought
on occasion, especially when someone points a firearm at me. If you
haven't read _Cobra_, by Timothy Zahn, then you should. Every man or
woman I kill had friends, family, loved ones. We forget that at our
peril.


As for the bar... well done chasing the lead. Pity Easy's out of town,
she's usually memorable for this kind of work: helps if you remind her
not to kill anyone, though. Lilith says she'll handle it.]<<<<<
-- Lynch <20:19:33/03-28-58>