the pond-draining spect-op: the A.F.R. snatch — the insurgency operating in Boston
the legless figure up on burly stumps in the chair fleur-de-lis-with-sword-stem-masked and bent far forward for a skier’s pure speed
Context
The A.F.R. reaches into a Boston park: the "fleur-de-lis-with-sword-stem-masked" legless assassin — the cell's escutcheon worn as in the Antitoi raid (097) — comes down the hillside in a scoop-rigged wheelchair and "scoops the engineer... up," bearing him into a waiting HANDICAPPED-plated van. The target is the WYYY radio engineer tied to Madame Psychosis (the Entertainment's female lead), so the snatch is an insurgency intelligence operation on U.S. soil, executed under the Chief of U.S.O.U.S.'s own window. The politics landed here is the fact of the A.F.R. operating openly in metro Boston; the disguised-van tradecraft and the scoop-method are surveillance-disguise's.