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During a session at his Fifty-Eighth Street office, Abramson persuaded Olson that he should agree to be hospitalised as a voluntary patient at a Maryland sanatorium.

It was the fifty-eighth anniversary of the operation, which ended in catastrophe; the annual commemoration has become a kind of Miami Passion play.

He ran east on Fifty-eighth Street, toward the yards and fences that Petra knew could hide him.

“Assault suspect heading east on Fifty-eighth Street—carrying stolen item. Immediate help requested.”

He trained as a tank commander, and then climbed the military hierarchy; he led the Fifty-eighth Army during the Second Chechen War.