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and an export market for nations that could have never hoped to compete.
No, you are wrong! the young man shouted at the top of his voice. He walked
over and switched on the TV. All it has brought is greed and poverty and
plundering. And this TV bullshit.
CNN was on, the international business briefs, which seemed appropriate.
Gerd s eyes bulged as he watched the intruder kneel down next to him, at the
same time hearing the TV voice announce how the Brazilian real was under
pressure again.
What are you doing? Gerd gasped. His eyes bugged out.
I m going to do what a thousand pregnant mothers with AIDS would like to do
to you, Herr Doctor.
Please, Gerd begged. Please . . . you are making some kind of serious
mistake.
The intruder smiled. He took a look at the supplies on the bed. Ah, I see
you like fishing. I can work with that.
Chapter45
I GOT IN TO THE OFFICE at seven-thirty the following morning and was surprised
to find Deputy Director Molinari on the phone behind my desk.Something had
happened.
He signaled for me to close the door. From what I could make out, he was
talking with his office back East, getting briefed on a case. He had a stack
of folders in his lap and he jotted down the occasional note. I could make out
a couple:9mm andItinerary .
What s goin on? I asked when he hung up.
He motioned for me to sit down. There s been a killing in Portland. A Swiss
national was shot in his hotel room. An economist. He was preparing to leave
for Vancouver this morning on a fishing excursion.
Not to sound blasé, but we already had two national-security murder cases and
the leaders of the Free World were eyeballing our every move. I m sorry, I
said, this relates to us, how?
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Molinari flipped open one of the folders he was holding, which turned out to
be a set of crime photos he d already had faxed from the scene. They showed a
corpse in what looked to be a fishing vest with two bullet holes. His shirt
was ripped open and his bare chest seemed to have had some letters scratched
on it,MAI .
The victim was an economist, Lieutenant, Molinari said, for the OECD. He
looked at me and smiled tightly. That makes it clear.
As I sat down, my stomach sank.Immediately clear . Mur-der number three. I
studied the crime shots more closely. Shots to the chest and a coup de grâce
to the forehead. A large fisherman s hook in an evidence bag. The letters
scratched into the victim s chest.MAI. These letters mean anything to you?
Yeah, Molinari said, nodding. He got up. I ll tell you about it on the
plane.
Chapter46
THE PLANE Molinari had arranged for us was a Gulf-stream G-3 with a red,
white, and blue crest on the fuselage and the wordsGOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED
STATES. The deputy director was definitely up there on the food chain.
It was my first time climbing aboard a private jet in the private section of
SFI. As the doors closed behind us and the engines started up as soon as we
hit our seats, I couldn t deny a thrill shooting through me. This is
definitely the way to travel, I said to Molinari. He didn t disagree with me.
The flight up to Portland was a little over an hour. Moli-nari was on the
phone for the first few minutes. When he got off, I wanted to talk.
I laid out the crime photos. You were going to tell me what this meant.
MAI?
The MAI was a secret trade agreement, he explained, negotiated a few years
back by the wealthy countries of the WTO. It extended to large corporations
rights that some-times superseded those of governments. Some people think it
created an open hunting season on smaller economies. It was defeated in 1998
by a worldwide grassroots campaign, but I m told the OECD, which Propp worked
for, was redraft-ing it and testing the waters again. Any ideas where?
The G-8 meeting next week?
Yeah . . . By the way he opened his briefcase I think you might get
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