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The Star Ruby Contract
 Philip Atlee
Copyright 1967 by Fawcett Publications
Published in paperback by Fawcett Gold Medal Books, 1967
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In Washington they call him The Nullifier. The reason behind the label goes something like this...
If you influence a man to tell you something important, that is intelligence; if you steal the same material when he's out of the room, that's espionage.
But if, when matters get too irritating for diplomatic channels, you pay a man to obliterate situations or people, you have a takeout, an expert on planned violence, a nullifier.
It is a suitably vague and bureaucratic word, nicely calculated to insulate the policy-makers themselves from Joe Gall -- the devil of their own creation.
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