...My team.My team is dead!...Golitsyn""s gone...They knew we were coming and the disk is gone....The list is in the open." Kittridge wanted to bring in sole surviving Hunt, asking first if he was followed or hurt, to meet at "location green" in one hour.Almost everyone he encountered (except his African-American maid and a watchful resident doctor) in the DC political system interpreted his slightly mysterious, extremely literal pronouncements (mostly about gardening) as wise, pithy, profound, and metaphoric gnomic statements, and perceived him the way that they wished to envision him, regardless of his naivete and the reality of the situation...Naturally, a thing that is profitable to some is unprofitable to others...We all know that some folks here have suffered financially due in some measure to this man""s success with the Syndicate Plantation.After total exhaustion and expending all of his energy, Julius stood before his indomitable opponent, urging: "Take your best shot, you mother-f--ker.