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A.R.Yngve
PARRY'S PROTOCOL
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Chapter 23
On the plane to Langley, Abram dictated a few notes into his pocket secretary.
"Item: Patrick strikes you as the archetypal paranoiac, as others have observed before me. The traumatic childhood... the precocious mind... the latent homophobia... violent tendencies... the idea of others being spies and marionettes... the obsession with conspiracies. And yet, there's a hint of self-consciousness in his madness, an irony that's mostly absent in these cases. Perhaps Parry sees the world as a theater watched by some malicious force, so that he's constantly being aware of an unseen audience..."
Abram frowned, then switched off the gadget. He took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes, then put the eyeglasses back on his head, pulled up the blanket over his chest and closed his eyes.