CHAPTER 48STUART THE APOSTATE?
The four story, neo-classical U. S. embassy at 2, Avenue Gabriel, 8th arrondissement in Paris. Guarded day and night by gendarmes. Two eagle statues flanking one entrance.
Inside, enormous chandeliers as befit a great power. Fresh flowers everywhere. Gilded paintings of American statesmen, too. Piles of invitations to state functions. Back issues of Elle , stacked next to Iranian newspapers, heavily jotted with English translations.
Staffers from the Political and Economic Sections scurried around. Elsewhere, the Regional Security Officer proofread a memo to her staff on the upcoming visit of the Secretary of State.
Everything normal at that Tuesday early morning hour, except for one cubicle of an office in a restricted access part of the chancery, whe
