And I wouldn’t put it past the French, either, which may or may not connect to the mercenaries. All the oil companies have long-standing links to me...cenaries as that’s often who they use for security abroad.”“And Lockheed? Or Fleet Street?”“Media barons hiring mercenaries to plant bombs doesn’t pass the sniff test. Lockheed is possible, but after their scandal, I doubt they’d be that stupid.”Dan took over. “There are three other scenarios to consider, which get progressively more worrying.. When we reached the dress area, mom told me I could pick out two skirtsand two dresses on my own. She was going to get some other things.Standing in a sea of colorful skirts and dresses, I had no idea where tostart, except that I knew my size. Mom had told me what size to buy. Iselected a pleated green, white, and navy skirt, plus one that was tan.In dresses I picked out one in black and one that was all pink. Allalone in those dresses, I got lost in the very idea that I was pickingout my own. I did some scouting around and bought a collection of spyware. A camera hidden in a clock, another in a vase that could be full of ornamental dried flowers and the piece-de-resistance a mirror to go over the bed that had a camera in each top corner so that I could record 3D. The mirror had rhinestones set in the frame which almost made it look tacky but impossible to guess where the lenses were. I spent an hour in the room fixing it all in place and you would never know that they were not the. “You embarrassed us all by refusing the man’s gift.”“But I don’t even know the man.” She complained.“Still, in this place. You do not refuse a man anything, especially a gift. I should have warned you. It’s my fault. What did the man tell you?”She patted her eyes dry on a napkin and told Dave. “The man who gave me this said that these were for me, but I wasn’t allowed to open the box. That only my advocate could open it. Who the hell is my advocate?” she whined.Dave looked over at the man and.