J. HIGGINS: You were with Mr. Donovan’s OSS, weren’t you, sir?

MR. WABASH: I sailed the Adriatic with a movie star at the helm! . . . It doesn’t seem like much of a war now, but it was. I go back even further: to ten years after the Great War, as we called it. Before we knew enough to number them.

J. HIGGINS: You miss that kind of action, sir?

MR. WABASH: No—that kind of clarity.

—LORENZO SEMPLE, Jr., AND DAVID RAYFIEL, THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR SCREENPLAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1975, FROM THE NOVEL SIX DAYS OF THE CONDOR BY JAMES O’GRADY