An Expensive Place To Die

January, 1967

An Expensive Place to DiePart II of a new novelSynopsis: It was as fine as any springtime past in Paris--lyrics by Dumas and music by Offenbach. I was watching the birds above the rooftops from the window of my dingy apartment in the Rue St. Ferdinand when the Embassy courier came. What he had to deliver was some very modern stuff--secret documents with test-result data on nuclear fallout. London wanted me, he said, to see that these sensitive papers got stolen by a certain Monsieur Datt.And who...