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friend of Montaigne's. A man in his late fifties, youthful-looking, confident and buoyant. He is about the
same size as Pitt but has a slight paunch at the waist. Has olive brown eyes.
Operation lberville.The operation at Morgan City.
Operation Orion.The operation at Orion Lake.
Oregon.Formerly a Pacific Coast lumber hauler, the vessel sailed between Vancouver and San
Francisco for close to twenty-five years before being retired. When Pitt boards her in Manila, he guesses
her length at just under three hundred feet, with a forty-five-foot beam, and figures the vessel displaces
between four and five thousand tons. Flies an Iranian flag. Powered by twin diesel turbine engines; her
twin screws can push the ship past forty knots. For armaments, the vessel features sea-to-sea and
sea-to-air missile launchers along with Harpoon surface-to-surface missiles and Mark 46 torpedoes.
Owned by the covert intelligence corporation that helps Pitt search the S.S.United States .
Oregon's launch.A big, double-ender powered by a 539-cubic-inch, 1,500-horsepower engine.
Orion Lake.Lake on the Olympic Peninsula where Shang's compound is located. Shaped like a
slender teardrop whose lower end gently tapers into a small river.
Orion River.Starts at Orion Lake. Runs sixteen miles through a canyon before emptying into the
upper end of a fjord like inlet called Grapevine Bay. Grapevine Bay opens into the Pacific Ocean.
Paladin Self-Propelled Howitzer.Used by the Louisiana National Guard to attack the S.S.United
States . Shoot a 155-millimeter high-explosive fragmentation shell.
Pecorelli, Harold.President Wallace's new chief of staff after Laird resigns.
Peking Man.Sinanthropus pekinensis. A very ancient and primitive man who walked upright on two
feet. His skull was discovered in 1929 by Canadian anatomist Charles Black digging in a quarry that had
once been a hill with limestone caves near the village of Choukoutien. In December 1941, when invading
Japanese troops were closing in on Peking, officials at the Peking Union Medical College, where the
bones were stored, decided they should be moved to a place of safety. The bones were packed in two