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THE AEGIS
CONSPIRACY
A NOVEL BY
GALEN WINTER
The Aegis Conspiracy: A Novel
Copyright ©2011 by Galen Winter
ISBN-13 978-1-926918-97-6
Second Edition
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Winter, Galen, 1926-
The aegis conspiracy : a novel / written by Galen Winter – 2nd ed.
ISBN 978-1-926918-97-6
Also available in print format.
I. Title.
PS3573.I565A74 2010 813'.54 C2010-900227-X
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Publisher: CCB Publishing
British Columbia, Canada
In MemoriamDouglas Robert Winter
Contents
The man sat alone at a table in a restaurant in the Arturo Merino Benitez airport in Santiago. It was cold outside in the Chilean winter night, but comfortably warm in the section of the airport reserved for international travelers. For ten minutes, the man had been engrossed in reading the La Prensa articles describing the discovery of the body of Humberto del Valle. Without looking up, he reached for the small cup of coffee that rested on the table in front of him. He brought it to his lips. The coffee was cold. He glanced at the waiter and nodded slightly.
The waiter came to the table and the man said: “Otro cafecito, por favor.”
The waiter answered “Si. Senor,” and walked to the restaurant counter for another cup of the strong, black coffee the traveler seemed to prefer.
Though the government of General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte had been out of power for some time, the recollections of his administration’s jailing and murder of left-wingers, opposition politicians and student dissidents had not faded. The report of the death of Humberto del Valle, the man who organized the vicious abuses, was front-page news.
His
