DEVIL`S ALTERNATIVE_THE. (F.Forsyth)

The President of the United States read the memorandum with an expression of increasing horror. 'This is appalling,' he said. 'Whichever option I choose, men are going to die.' Adam Munro was unmoved. In his time, he has learned that, in principle, politicians have little enough objection to loss of life, providing they cannot be seen publicly to have had anything to do with it. 'It has happened before,' he said 'and no doubt it will happen again. In the Firm we call it the Devil's Alternative.'