CHAPTER TEN I do what I always do when the whole world is against me. I go to Blondie. I take the steps rather than the elevator up one floor to where my wife is working. I catch her eye and give her the high-sign that I want to see her . In a minute or two, she finds me and we slip into a deserted courtroom. My bride, never one to fool with red tape, gets right to the point. "Gene, I can read you like a book. Things are not going well, and don't try to tell me any different." "As always, you’re one hundred percent right. It's not coming together. Not coming together at all. On the way up here, I learned that the cops will issue a Missing Persons Report, but only because Mrs. Severson is putting the pressure on. Someone at Public Affairs reached the decision that they don't want the rad

