"They won't kill him. They know who he is. He worked in guidance, he was Schilling's best man, he knows more about integrating circuits than anybody they'll find outside of Garmisch now. The Russians are offering fantastic salaries better than the Americans and they'll let him stay in Germany, work at Peenemünde or the Mittelwerke, just like he used to. He can even escape, if that's what he wants, we have very good connections for that"

"But what if they did shoot him?" "No. They weren't supposed to." "Springer, this ain't the fuckin' movies now, come on." "Not yet. Maybe not quite yet. You'd better enjoy it while you can. Someday, when the film is fast enough, the equipment pocket-size and burdenless and selling at people's prices, the lights and booms no longer necessary, then ... then ..."

— Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (Page 527)