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always liked to keep you off guard.Who is she?
Mal had been told to wear a suit jacket and even a tie, if he could dig one
up. He had, and he found it kind of funny  bright red with tiny bugles in the
design.
Danko stood rather formally and shook Mal s hand, just another of his odd
off-putting gestures. He waved a hand around the dining room.  Could there be
a safer place for us to meet? My Gawd,the Huntington! 
He looked at the girl and they both laughed, but he didn t introduce her.
 Ricin, Malcolm said,  it sbrilliant. What a great day  we got Bengosian!
We can do so much damage here. Hell, we could wipe outthis capitalist den in
about a minute flat. Go over to the Mark and take out another hundred rich
blood-suckers. Take the trolley and spring death on anybody we passed.
 Yes, especially because I figured how to make it as a concentrate.
Malcolm nodded, but he looked nervous.  I thought this was about G-8?
Danko looked at the girl again. They shared condescend-ing smiles.Who the
hell is she? What does she know?
 Your focus is too narrow, Mal. We ve talked about that before. More than
anything else, this is about terrifying people. And we re going to scare them,
believe me. Ricin will do the trick. Makes anthrax look like something only
farm animals should fret about.
He stared hard at Malcolm now.  You have a delivery sys-tem for me? For the
ricin?
Malcolm had stopped making eye contact.  Yeah.
 And more of your explosives?
 We could blow the Huntington right off the map. The Mark, too. Malcolm
finally allowed himself a sheepish smile.  All right, who isshe? 
Danko threw back his head and laughed.  She s someone brilliant, just like
you. She s a secret weapon. Let s leave it at that. Just another soldier, he
said, then looked into the girl s eyes.  There s always another soldier,
Malcolm. That s what should be scaring the hell out of everybody right now.
Chapter71
MICHELLE HEARD VOICES in the other room. Mal was back from his meeting. Julia
was whooping it up as if she d won the lottery. But Michelle felt awful.
She knew they had done terrible things. The latest killing didn t sit well
with her. That pretty, innocent D.A. She had put aside the image of Charlotte
Lightower and the house-keeper who d been killed in the blast, and found some
relief that at least the children had been saved. Lightower, Ben-gosian  they
were greedy, guilty scum.
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But this one. What had she done to be on the list? Because she worked for the
state? What had Mal said?This one is just for the thrill of it, just to show
we can. Except Michelle didn t really believe that. There was always a hidden
agenda with Mal.
The poor D.A. knew she was going to die from the minute they forced her into
the truck. But she never gave in. Not once. She seemed brave to Michelle. The
real crime was that she never even knew why she was dying! They wouldn t even
give her that.
The door creaked open and Mal eased into the room. The look of triumph on his
face gave Michelle the creeps. He lay down next to her, smelling of tobacco
and alcohol.  What happened to my party girl?
 Not tonight, Michelle said. A wheeze kicked up in her chest.
 Not tonight? Mal grinned.
Michelle sat up.  I just don t understand. Why her? What did she do to
anybody?
 I mean, what did any of them really do? Mal stroked her hair.  Wrong
employer, honeybun. She represented the big bad state that s sanctioning the
criminal pillaging of the world. That s what she did, Michelle. She s tanks in
Iraq. She s Grumman and Dow Chemical and the WTO all rolled into one. Don t be
fooled because she was pretty.
 They said on the news that she put away murderers. She even prosecuted some
of these CEOs in business scandals.
 And I told younot to pay attention to the news, Michelle. Sometimes people
who do good things die. Hold that thought.
She shot a horrified look at him. The cough in her chest grew tighter. She
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