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To Danielle Dubois


This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary
of the existing government, they can exercise their Constitutional right of amending it, or their
revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
—Abe Lincoln

PROLOGUE


Louisiana, 1984

“Are you nuts?” Ben Raines asked, fighting back an urge to laugh in the man's face. “I mean, honest to
God, fellow, have you got both oars in the water?”

The sarcastic slur and intellectual insult was lost on the visitor. “I assure you, Mr. Raines, I am in full
command of all my faculties. You came highly recommended to me. To us.”

“By whom?”

“I cannot divulge that information. Not just yet. I am sorry.”

“How do you know I won't go straight to the FBI with this ... scheme of yours?”

The man pointed. “There is the phone. Call them. You can't prove a thing. But we can—about you.” He
smiled.