On the imagining of conspiracy

Christopher Hitchens

  • Harlot’s Ghost by Norman Mailer
    Joseph, 1122 pp, £15.99, October 1991, ISBN 0 7181 2934 2
  • A Very Thin Line: The Iran-Contra Affairs by Theodore Draper
    Hill and Wang, 690 pp, $27.95, June 1991, ISBN 0 8090 9613 7

Fine phrases about the freedom of the individual and the inviolability of the home were exchanged between the Minister of State and the Prefect, to whom M. de Sérisy pointed out that the major interests of the country sometimes required secret illegalities, crime beginning only when State means were applied to private interests.

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