Word: luccio
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...19th century anarchist named Sergei Gennadiyevich Nechayev. Halliday's fee: $50,000. Such jack being rare for a hack, Halliday warily takes on the job. It leads him to Italy and to the mailer of the bomb, an unsavory entrepreneur of many aliases-Zander, Brochet, Hecht, Luccio-all of which, in various languages, mean pike, the fish...
...fishy as the dealer. Instead of penciling a manuscript-there is no manuscript-Halliday finds himself enmeshed in devious negotiations initiated by a Persian Gulf emir identified only as the Ruler. The potentate is eager to lease territory he controls to NATO as a major allied military base. Zander-Luccio, the Pike, serves as middleman in the deal, hoping that a grateful U.S. Government will thereafter provide him with political asylum and a new identity. After a long career of nastiness in the Middle East, he has learned that he is the target of an international hit gang named...
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