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Gable swallowed , picked up a framed snapshot of Nate’s family , and held it to the light . “ This your folks ? ” Nate nodded . Gable put the photo down . “ Handsome looking bunch . You’re adopted then , or what , forceps delivery ? ” === A walk - in , could be anything : A madman with aluminum foil inside his hat to ward off alien radio beams , an undocumented exile pleading for a US visa , an information peddler who that morning had memorized a newspaper article and hoped to serve it up as secrets worth a few hundred dollars . Go . Alternatively , a walk - in could be a bona fide volunteer — foreign intel officer , diplomat , scientist — with colossal intelligence that he was willing to pass to the Americans for money , or because of a crisis of ideology , or to exact revenge against a tyrant of a boss , or to spite a system in which he no longer believed