The question was who was doing the using? Karp, the President – or Becky? Given Alta’s zealous devotion to the First Lady, it struck him as highly improbable the woman would have warned him against any plan on Becky’s part. That left the other two, or someone connected to the White House whose pr...
Poland, what little he had seen of it, was cold and wet, with sky the color of grey metal, and heavy, low clouds. The trees along the railroad tracks were overgrown and pressed down from both sides. It was a dark, gloomy place, this valley. There had been no dwellings, no cultivated fields, no si...