His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.

I quickly told him there was a rule against asking for autographs during press events. “Is there?” he asked with a conspiratorial smile, continuing to sign the book and impishly handing it back to me.

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