Section One was not dead -- after America, he'd be back to give it life again -- but it was badly mangled. Last week, it had been the most effective operational unit of the People's Revolutionary Force for Direct Action.-- The Hidden Target by Helen MacInnes.
I have a stack of Helen MacInnes books and always enjoy them. This is a later one, published in 1980, and involves "a new undercover counter-terrorist network" and "a deadly game playing across thee continents."
It was a little dense to start with, but now that the players are in place and the adventure has begun, it is rolling right along.
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