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Dangerous Assignment: The Empty Matchbook (Sonoma, South America)
Dangerous Assignment · December 2, 1950 · 28 min · 5,173 words
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Dangerous assignment, starring Brian Dunlevey as Steve Mitchell. Yeah, danger is my assignment. I get sent to a lot of places I can't even pronounce. They all spell the same thing though, trouble.
But when I walk into the Commissioner's office, I don't realize that this assignment's gonna involve my trying to prevent a revolution with just two weapons, an old beat-up railroad timetable, and an empty matchbook. Morning Commissioner, Ruth said you had an assignment for me.
I do, Steve. You're flying this out of my room. Uh, oh, well, what do I do when I get there? I don't know. You don't? Hey, let me have that again. You heard me. I don't know. It's a very nasty mess. That's why I'm sending you.
I don't know whether to take that as a compliment or not. Okay, what's the deal, Commissioner? Take a look at this map of South America, Steve. Yeah. See these two countries? Uh-huh. What about them?
One of them's friendly to us. The other? Well, not so friendly. And right now, they're accusing the friendly country of plotting against them with our aid. What? Now, sure. Sounds crazy, but unfortunately, there seems to be some pretty damaging evidence in existence.
What kind of evidence? Some letters supposedly written by General Avilard, the president of the friendly country. plans concerning this plot discussed in those letters that genuine unless one of the things you're going to find out general of a lot of course denies ever writing them but officials of the other country who now have possession of the letters say that genuine without a doubt
of this other country get their hands on these letters last night president of a lot of son-in-law was found in the town across the border murdered the letters were on his personal theory is that he had double crossed his father law and was on his way to peddle the letters to this other country well where
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