There he remained until last year, retiring early as a full commander, leaving America, moving to Copenhagen, and buying a rare-book shop.Ī midlife crisis? Trouble with the government? Thirteen years ago he'd changed directions again and moved to the Justice Department and the newly formed Magellan Billet, which handled some of America 's most sensitive international investigations. He was transferred to the Judge Advocate General's corps, where he spent nine years. Interestingly, Malone had followed in his father's footsteps, attending the Naval Academy and flight school, then abruptly changed directions, eventually earning a government-paid law degree. His mother a native southerner, his father a career military man, a navy commander whose submarine had sunk when Malone was ten years old. Like him, though, Malone was American, born in Georgia. Malone was forty-eight, older than Sabre by eleven years. His given name was Harold Earl, and nowhere in any of the background material was there an explanation of where the nickname Cotton had originated.
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