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The Bryce Ogilvie breathed deeply, calmly, and
stood erect as he pressed the bellTwenty-eight seconds later, irritatingly clocked by the attorney as
he silently counted ?one one-thousand, two one-thousand,? ad nauseam, the door was opened by
the Soviet consul general, a slender man of medium height whose aquiline face had taut white skin
and large brown eyes
Vladimir Sulikov was a wiry seventy-three-year-old full of nervous energy, a scholar and former
professor of history at Moscow University, a committed Marxist, yet oddly enough, considering his
position, not a member of the Communist PartyIn truth, he was not a member of any political
orthodoxy, preferring the passive role of the unorthodox individual within a collectivist society
Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
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That, and his singularly acute intellect, had served him well |
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