"
"I'm going to call Molly again," I said. "I'm getting in pretty deep. I need some background. There are things I don't understand. "
The place was quiet so I used the rosewood office. I dialed the Washington number and got Molly on the second ring.
"Can you talk?" I asked her.
She told me to wait, and I heard her get up and close her office door.
"It's too soon, Jack," she said. "I can't get the stuff until tomorrow. "
"I need background," I said. "I need to understand this international stuff Joe was doing. I need to know why things are happening here, if the action is supposed to be overseas. "
I heard her figuring out where to start.
"OK, background," she said. "I guess Joe's assumption was it's maybe controlled from this country. And it's a very difficult problem to explain,
