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which you can't because he's all tied up keeping me out of jail.
So, to my many friends who are attorneys (they're either
attorneys, actors, or homicidal killers-is there a running
connection?), skip over the finer points of law that are neither fine
nor very pointed. However, they may well be inaccurately accurate.
-RL

What Robert Ludlum is too modest to say is that when The
Road to Gandolfo was published under his own name, it
immediately became an international best-seller in eighteen
different countries.
Readers were delighted to discover that his giftfor comedy
matched his talent for writing entertaining yet meaningful
thrillers.

The Publisher

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MacKenzie Lochinvar Hawkins-Former general of the army, former
by request,of the White House, the Pentagon, the State Department,
and most of Washington. Twice decorated with the Congressional
Medal of Honor. A.k.a. Madman Mac the Hawk.

Samuel Lansing Devereaux-Brilliant young attorney, Harvard Law
School, U.S. Army (reluctantly), lawyer for the Hawk in China
(disastrously).

Sunrise Jennifer Redwing-Also an attorney, also brilliant,
outrageously gorgeous, and a fiercely loyal daughter of the
Wopotami Indian nation.

Aaron Pinkus-Soft-spoken giant of Boston law circles, the
consummate attorney-statesinan who happens to be Sam
Devereaux's employer (unfortunately).

Desi Arnaz I-An impoverished miscreant from Puerto Rico who falls
under the Hawk's spell, and who one day may be the director of the
Central Intelligence Agency.

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Desi Arnaz 11-See above. Less of a leader but a mechanical
genius, such as in hot-wiring cars, picking locks, fixing ski
lifts, and turning pesto sauce into an anesthetic.