Chapter 93

ONE A.M., but who could sleep?

Molinari came into the squad¹ room. I was watching the wires with Paul Chin. He looked at me and sighed. "Charles Danko."

He tossed a green folder² on the desk across from me. It was marked PRIVILEGED INFORMATION, FBI. "They had to go deep in the cold files to find him."

I felt my blood rush. My skin prickled. Did this mean we were close to finding him?

"He went to the University of Michigan," Molinari said. "Arrested twice for disorderly conduct and inciting³ to riot. Picked up in New York in 1973 for illegal possession of rearms. A town house he lived in there just blew up one afternoon. Here one minute, gone the next."

"Sure sounds like our boy."

"He was being sought in connection with a bombing of the Pentagon in 1972. An expert in explosives. After that town house blew in New York, he disappeared. No one knew whether he was in the country or out. Charles Danko's simply been missing for thirty years. No one's even chasing him."

"A white rabbit," I said.

He laid out an old rap sheet dated 1974 and a faxed black-and-white FBI wanted poster. On it was a slightly older ver-sion of the boyish face I had seen in the family photo at the Danko house.

"There's our man," Molinari said. "Now how the hell do we find him?"

1 squad   

n.班，小队，小团体；vt.把…编成班或小组

参考例句：

• The squad leader ordered the men to mark time.班长命令战士们原地踏步。
• A squad is the smallest unit in an army.班是军队的最小构成单位。

2 folder   

n.纸夹，文件夹

参考例句：

• Peter returned the plan and charts to their folder.彼得把这份计划和表格放回文件夹中。
• He draws the document from its folder.他把文件从硬纸夹里抽出来。

3 inciting   

刺激的，煽动的

参考例句：

• What are you up to inciting mutiny and insubordination? 你们干吗在这里煽动骚动的叛乱呀。
• He was charged with inciting people to rebel. 他被控煽动民众起来叛乱。