"I improvise. It is my greatest talent. I prefer situations to plans, you see.....Really,I've had to deal with givens. I can sort a great deal of information, and sort it very quickly. It's taken a very long time to assemble the team your part of. Corto was the first, and he nearly didn't make it. Very far gone in Toulon. Eating, excreting, and masturbating were the best he could manage. But the underlying structure of the obsessions were there: Screaming Fist, his betrayal, the congressional hearings."
"Is he still crazy?"
"He's not quite a personality." Dean smiled.
"But I am sure you are aware of that. But Corto is in there, somewhere, and I can no longer maintain that delicate balance. He's going to come apart on you, Case. So I will be counting on you. . ."
"That's good, mother fucker," Case said, and shot him in the mouth with the .357.
He'd been right about the brains. and the blood.
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November 2013
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