“Well, perhaps he hated you and your touch.” Randolph spoke with clinical calm. “Or perhaps he had to make a choice between love and country. Perhaps he set out to entrap you, but perhaps someone said to him, Get us this information or we’ll expose your man, we’ll kill him. We’ll kill you. There were no easy choices in that bloody war, and no single decisions. And if you were considered as culpable as all that, they’d have shot you.”

