Book 3, Burton Crane
Chapter 9HIS FBI LIAISON WAS an old acquaintance from back in the seventies. Special agent Hugh Miller had given a lecture at the National Police Academy when Burton Crane was a greenhorn. Only rarely did the public halo of the FBI reflect its real work behind the scenes. Miller had allowed him close enough to see the halo slip.
Ages ago, Miller, lured by the image of the FBI’s clean ideals, took the lifetime plunge, a survivor determined to stay the course. He bent in the storms that raged through the Bureau. Cleared the hurdles of autocratic dictates and did the dirty legwork. Worked his plodding way upwards or downwards as some would have it, to clandestine wiretapping and illegal surveillance. Graduating to political intimidation and arm-twisting, he did his unse
