"CONGRATULATIONS," the cable read, "CAN HARDLY WAIT TO MEET WHAT WE ARE SURE MUST BE THREE AND HALF KILOS DYNAMITE." Frank Kirton, 43, beamed as he read it; his wife had just given birth to a son, weight 3½ kilograms. Somehow, Argentina's ever-alert federal police got hold of a copy of the cable; their gimlet eyes lingered long over the word "dynamite." Kirton, after all, was a foreigner a Brazilian-born Briton. And he owned a ranch in Gualeguaychú in Entre Rios Province, just across the river from Uruguaymighty handy for smuggling dynamite.
Even more alarming was a subsequent telegram from another...
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