Presence of Mind

crosses mental swords with two high-ranking State Department diplomats, Kevin Haining and Maximilian Ordway, authors of a controversial peace treaty with the Soviets. Hanrahan suspects there is more behind the treaty than mere haggling. The clue is a statuette made of paperclips and several helpings of "cognitive dissonance." In Presence of Mind Chess Hanrahan, private detective in New York City, at first meets an old high school flame, and was going to have dinner with a friend and fellow detective-but finds him dead. He later