Most of the translations from foreign languages in the text are my own, but for the quotation from Machiavelli’s and the quotation from Virgil’s (though I have adapted the latter very slightly). I am indebted to the late scholars George Bull (1929–2001) and E. V. Rieu (1887–1972), respectively. —OLIVER BOWDEN, PARIS, 2010
Frank Matisse had specialized in stealing from hotel rooms but was trying hard to go straight. He meets Dick Nichols in New Orleans and discovers that he was raising money for the Contras, although his daughter, Lucy, doesn't want the money to arrive in Nicaragua. From the author of "Glitz".
