GEORGES ALHAMID HANDED the letter back to St. Simon. “There’s your star pupil,” he said gently.
St. Simon nodded. “The wise fool. The guy who’s got sense enough to know that he isn’t competent to do the job.”
“Did you notice that he waltzed all around the real reason for the anchor-setting program without quite hitting it?”
St. Simon smiled humorlessly. “Sure. Notice the wording of the letter. He still thinks in terms of the Team, even when he’s trying not to. He thinks we do this just to train men to have a real good Team Spirit. He can’t see that that is only a very useful by-product.”
“How could he think otherwise?” Alhamid asked. “To him, or to Tarnhorst, the notion of deliberately tailoring a program so that it would kill off the fools and the incompetents, setting up a program th
