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Who's In Trouble Now?
Napoleon couldn’t remember a crazier Christmas, and he had a few to choose from. This one was truly bizarre. His mind was trying to locate some other time when his favorite holiday had been hijacked by a lunatic when he located the camera he knew had been tracking him and Illya through the woods.
As Alexander Waverly watched his agent investigate the camera lens, a small smile crept across his face. He was going to enjoy this little ‘interview’ with the Claibornes. The Old Man might look the part of an aging English gentleman, but beneath the tweeds and the pleasant demeanor was an old, wily fox, and the couple in front of him, with their caviar and wine, had good reason to stand in fear before the Chief of UNCLE Northwest and beyond.
Have his job indeed! What they had was his attention, and that could be a very dangerous position in which to find oneself.
The lights beyond the shop’s exterior were still being reflected on the bottles and crystal inside. Extravagant trappings for the truly wealthy and their nouveau riche neighbors gave the Claiborne business the appearance of class and sophistication. What it disguised was a business that harbored vile and inhumane trafficking of human cargo. Randall Claiborne had long ago discovered that people would pay for cheap labor that asked no questions and dared not complain.
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