Chapter 6
Washington, DC
Georgetown University
15 December 2010
Ian
MY LONGEST SCHEDULED office hours during the week were on Wednesday morning, and it was during that time that the call came. The caller beat around the bush for a while, refusing to identify himself; then he talked about his admiration for my last book and even quoted a few things from it. The none-too-subtle punch line was, however, that I was being urged to bring pressure to bear on Randy—something to do with a project with which he was involved. The guy even had the code name for the project. I declined, politely but firmly. He told me he’d give me a couple of days to think about it and hung up. I called Rupert immediately to ask him if his people had recorded the conversation.
“Yes, they did,” he said.
“When can
