Several members of Sweeney’s staff began to ask questions designed to embarrass Boyd, to throw off his timing, to reveal how shallow this new theory was. That was fine with Boyd. He looked on the questions as if they were bullets fired during an air-to-air engagement. Before more than a few words were out of a man’s mouth, Boyd knew where a question was going, and he knew how to respond. Like any fighter pilot he turned into the fight, confronting every question head-on. And because he knew his material better than any other person in the room, no one touched him.
