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Originally posted by coquette37. After Doyle had his secretary, Betty Breathless, arrange for Ben to be sent to the Hinterlands of what was the old USSR he said "could you please arrange for some pate de foi gras and a magnum of Dom to be sent up here and then call Sheila and ask that she meet me in my office in the hour...oh and when she arrives we're NOT to be disturbed". Betty called down to Moishe's for the liver and The Wine Cellar for the Dom. Within 1/2 an hour the scene was set.
26. And in Seattle, a Sea Hawk was squawking, "Those Pigs deserve to be skinned! What are we, chopped liver?"
38. Sheila, still reeling from the possibilities, sauntered into Doyle's office and saw the pate and Dom and lit up with an absolute glow of delight. The sensual tension between them was palpable. She went over to the plush overstuffed sofa and sat and kicked off her heels as Doyle brought over two flutes of Dom. They kicked glasses and sipped. "Now," asked Doyle, with a rhetorical telling smile, "what's our next move?"
46. As Ken had been working on the tactics and logistics of the operation that was to play out in Kazakstan, his train of thought was returning and he greeted Doyle and Sheila with the Kipling quote he was trying to remember, ..."When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier."
"That's Kipling Doyle," Ken said, "and thats what always happens when outsiders go into Central Asia. Years ago you were part of CENTCOM, you should know that Doyle."
Just like Stu, Ben was being sent into the old den of the lion and the bear. The British and the Russians and now the Americans all have attempted to play the "Great Game" in Central Asia... and they had million man armies, what made Doyle think that he could do it. These things no matter how well planned or how poorly always tend to meet with disaster.