World: L'Affaire Argoud

A woman customer listened idly one afternoon last week while a thickset, somberly dressed stranger used the public telephone at. La Esmeralda café, across the square from Paris' Notre-Dame Cathedral. "This is the S.A.O.," he barked. "Yes, the S.A.O. We're giving you Argoud. He betrayed us, bungled all the jobs he was supposed to organize, particularly the Petit-Clamart affair. You can take delivery of him now. He's in a blue truck in the alley opposite Notre-Dame."

Minutes after the man hung up and strode out, the Square de l'Archevêché started filling with French police. Just as the man said, a small delivery...

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