Isobel gives her CIA minders the slip, crosses the Channel by Hovercraft (Hoverlloyd SR.N4 "Sure") and heads to the airfield. Kendig later ambushes Cutter in his hotel room, ties him up and gags him, and informs Cutter that he will be flying out in the morning from a small airfield near the English Channel. There, they read copies of the book's final chapter left for them. Kendig's publisher rebuffs Myerson's threats, and all the pursuers meet up at Kendig's now vacated hotel room. Kendig buys a small biplane and hires an engineer to do custom work on it. Yaskov and CIA agent Cutter (Waterston), a former protégé of Kendig's and friend who has been tasked with pursuing him, exchange information on Kendig. Kendig flies to Bermuda by hired seaplane, then on to London to meet with his publisher and present the last chapter of his memoir. As Kendig sneaks away as part of a pre-planned escape route, the FBI mistake time-delayed firecracker explosions for gunshots and let the bullets and teargas fly, shooting up the home. After leaking his address, Kendig induces the FBI to shoot up Myerson's home by saying he has plenty of hoarded firepower. Leaving Europe, he returns to the U.S., cheerfully renting Myerson's own unoccupied Georgia family home, where he writes a few more chapters. Kendig baits his pursuers by periodically informing them of his location. Yaskov also pursues Kendig for his insider knowledge on all CIA covert operations. Very quickly, as predicted, Myerson is out to silence Kendig permanently. She nevertheless helps out and mails copies of Kendig's first chapter to spy chiefs in the U.S., Russia, China, France, Italy, and Great Britain. Isobel is horrified, saying that Myerson will send agents to kill him. Inspired by Yaskov's idea to write his memoirs, Kendig begins a CIA memoir exposing Myerson's dirty tricks and general incompetence. Instead of going in the following Monday as directed, Kendig shreds his personnel file and flies to Salzburg, Austria to visit Isobel Von Schoenenberg (Jackson). Upon Kendig's return to Washington, his supervisor, Myerson (Beatty), forces him into a desk job because Kendig didn't arrest the Russian. Kendig, however, purposely does not apprehend Yaskov, the head of the KGB in Europe. At Munich's Oktoberfest, Miles Kendig (Matthau) and his CIA team foil a microfilm transfer to an East German spy.
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