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Kennedy Spaceport.Location on Cape Canaveral where the Gettysburg is due to l<strong>and</strong>. Also location<br />

of the medical facilities where the Jersey Colonists are transfer-red after they l<strong>and</strong> aboard the Gettysburg<br />

at Key West Naval Air Station.<br />

Key West Naval Air Station.U.S. Navy base that lies at the end of the Florida Keys. The runway is<br />

one <strong>and</strong> a half miles long <strong>and</strong> two hundred feet wide. The base power is out when the Gettysburg l<strong>and</strong>s<br />

there.<br />

Kleist, Colonel Ramon.U.S. Marine Corps colonel. Congressional Medal of Honor winner. <strong>Pitt</strong><br />

guesses his age as late fifties. He is a medium-skinned black, born in Argentina, the only child of a former<br />

SS officer who fled Germany after the war <strong>and</strong> married the daughter of a Liberian diplomat. Sent to a<br />

private school in New York, he decided to drop out <strong>and</strong> make a career in the Marines.<br />

Koichak, Colonel General Viktor.Soviet officer in charge of the fifteen thous<strong>and</strong> Soviet military<br />

forces <strong>and</strong> advisors based in Cuba. Soviet in charge of the fifteen hundred troops awaiting the<br />

Getlysburg's arrival at Santa Clara.<br />

Kornilov, Sergei.Chief of the Soviet space program.<br />

Kronberg, Hans.Partner of Raymond LeBaron. Found by <strong>Pitt</strong> in the wreck of the Cyclops <strong>with</strong> his<br />

air hose cut. Crippled from the bends, he continues to dive.<br />

Kronberg, Hilda.Wife of Hans Kronberg <strong>and</strong> first wife of Raymond LeBaron. Known as Hillary<br />

when married to LeBaron. Now in a senior citizen rest home near Leesburg, Virginia. Described as<br />

sickly thin <strong>with</strong> skin as transparent as tissue paper. Her face is heavily made up <strong>and</strong> her hair skillfully<br />

dyed. Her diamond rings would buy a small fleet of Rolls-Royces. <strong>Pitt</strong> guesses her age as a good fifteen<br />

years younger than the seventy-five she appears. Seventeen years younger than Hans Kronberg, she had<br />

been married for three years before Hans brought Raymond LeBaron to their home for dinner, <strong>and</strong> soon<br />

after they entered into an extramarital affair.<br />

La Dorada.Also known as La Mujer Dorada, the golden woman. Mentioned by O'Meara as the true<br />

sex of the famous golden statue that is the most sought after piece of the El Dorado treasure. Ordered<br />

constructed by a South American king in honor of his most beloved concubine, whom priests ordered to<br />

be sacrificed. Described as st<strong>and</strong>ing nearly six feet tall, on a pedestal of rose quartz. Her body is solid<br />

gold, <strong>and</strong> O'Meara estimates the statue must weigh nearly one ton. Embedded in her chest where the

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