“The bath had just been drawn and she had rented two classic movies, The Awful Truth and Arsenic and Old Lace, for later. She lit three scented candles, placed them around the bathroom and turned on the CD player, smiling as the first strains of Rusalka permeated the apartment. Now, all she needed to do was get the stack of magazines and newspaper supplements from the living room and everything was set. At last, a work-free evening. It had been flat out since the meeting in Arlington nine weeks ...earlier. Sleep and leisure time had both been sacrificed. She knew, though, that she could only work so hard before a break was required and tonight, she had decided, was going to be just that. She had placed a lot of the pressure on herself to either substantiate or dismiss the link between the attacks and the Kosovars. As she found herself unwilling to trust her subordinates to make decisions on whether data was pertinent or not that left her to sift through innumerable reports alone.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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