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By the time he started walking again toward Gate 32A, he realized that it was already ten minutes past the departure time of his flight.
It didn't matter. The Hyena was alive! The little Jap was here in America, on a plane for San Diego!
Bishop Watson felt shame for thinking of the Hyena as a Jap. But it was an unavoidable reflex. For the bishop, this man could never be anything but a Jap.
Excerpted from The Special Prisoner by Jim Lehrer Copyright© 2000 by Jim Lehrer. Excerpted by permission of Random House, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
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