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he died in a car collision; the other driver was a drunken Soviet Army Colonel. The U.S. Government said it was
an unfortunate accident, but the Power family never believed it. For as long as she could remember, Gary
had been both her older brother and father. And he had always been there for her — when she was picked up for shoplifting in 7th grade, when her mother died, even
when she joined the hippie commune where she met Lefty.
When her mother told her about the U-2 incident, she cried for weeks. First her father, now Gary. She promised herself that those dirty Commies would pay — somehow, someday.
As a Boston police officer, Schroeder had the perfect cover. His special assignment to monitor campus radicals at Brandeis University in the late 60s provided an extra layer of security. Who would ever doubt the loyalty or
