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"I love you, Brian," he said, opening his eyes, "but it's better for only one more todie, even if it's you, than millions."Brian swallowed hard. Neil raised the pistol and took aim. A shot pierced thetense silence, and then another, amid a hailshower of glass. Brian, Melissa, and Malcolmwatched Neil's body absorb the bullets fired by the MP's rifle through the laboratorywindow from outside the hallway. Neil was dead before he hit the floor. <strong>The</strong> Colonel andhis entourage carded the door and burst into the room.295
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NOTE TO THE READER:EVERY PERSON REF
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSWRITING A BOOK is n
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CHAPTER 1The greatest test of coura
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as the car drifted to the pickup wi
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"I don't like being manipulated.""B
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possibilities, and--""And the threa
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CHAPTER 2"I will prepare, and some
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his parents, he'd been offered an a
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detected something unusual in the g
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swipe this through the card reader
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left him with a disturbingly vulner
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arose from their table, leaving the
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"Here comes Dee," Malcolm noted dut
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dissertation?""Oh, yes, I recommend
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you think you are, the public you
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now? What are you trying to do, rui
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you've even done that!""Give me mor
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in the 19th and 20th centuries. She
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you're paying attention, you'll not
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since the amount of cattle and thei
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caps? Chances are a good deal of me
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said. "We really aren't able to art
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evolutionary process.""And many sec
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the heifer's rectum. Incredibly, th
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of the podium. "Two months ago," he
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some virus that you didn't know wit
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"Come on," Dr. Harper interjected,
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CHAPTER 6"Throughout history, it ha
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"Well, such as it is, I'm troubled
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"Are you opposed to evolution?" ask
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she was trying to push his buttons.
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some kind of cosmic genie. God answ
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against the wall. When it comes tim
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first case where hypnotic regressio
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abduction—scenery, sexual probing
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"Now listen very carefully, Dr. Kel
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ed near Melissa's head."What's that
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times. Yet there was no sense of vi
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punctuation marks."Brian shook his
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"I'll bet you have quite a history.
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CHAPTER 9"What luck for rulers that
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touted on the late-night airwaves w
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"If the rest of you had, you wouldn
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number of apocalyptic cults and the
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despondent voice."So glad you asked
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heavy to be accelerated by starligh
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CHAPTER 10"In our obsession with an
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***The silent, grim-faced figure sw
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ut the team members had no time to
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asked urgently.Neil turned and wipe
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"Don't forget, Neil, it got me fire
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don't want to get bogged down on it
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"Which is why you've been assembled
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CHAPTER 12"I am completely convince
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Japanese had.""No wings?" Melissa f
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we go any further?" Kevin pressed h
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that nothing objectionable about hi
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CHAPTER 13"I believe that these ext
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"Yes," the major replied. "One of t
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"I guess that's possible—but I st
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adio station KGFL where he gave a r
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silicon.""Any first year electronic
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CHAPTER 14"It's kind of fun to do t
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"All set to go," he smiled again. "
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over. Their craft was accelerating
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"Basically, the repelling effect se
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CHAPTER 15"It is my thesis that fly
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Colonel paced behind Major Lindsay'
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CHAPTER 16"I know that neither Russ
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"Still doesn't prove they're extrat
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"Our initially cautious approach th
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"If you're correct, Dr. Scott," the
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Washington on May 23 alone, and tha
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especially Mark and Malcolm, appear
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floating across the screen, high ab
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"No, he was a loyal member of MJ-12
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insisted there were no external wou
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various smaller lacerations on the
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"No sex organs. How do these guys g
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"Why?""She pretty much despises me,
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CHAPTER 19Then God said, "Let us ma
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He was gone. She breathed a sigh of
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novelty had been exploited to the f
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of the traditional view first. You
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of all these things. All one would
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ightful rule over the planet, no ot
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"So we go with your first view," th
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"This ought to be good," Melissa mu
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Israel kept a clear distinction bet
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angelic beings. The Hebrew text has
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here," he countered, suddenly feeli
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The word of the LORD came to me. "S
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"So each of these nations sort of h
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"That does make sense," said Neil.
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"Deidre? " Brian said, looking in h
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immortal or something like that—w
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CHAPTER 22"Character is much easier
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"Honestly, I don't know," he answer
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intervened, "but I'd like to hear y
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Deidre chastised him."What's this o
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"I'm afraid I have to agree with Dr
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A firm knock at the door interrupte
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"For starters," Brian began, removi
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earth, but as far as being any more
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weeks ago the idea had rocked his f
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what it would be like?" His silence
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"You mean I was just undressing for
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"Absolutely."* * *"Are you sure you
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CHAPTER 25"The mark of a good actio
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muffled by Brian's own anguished sc
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* * *Melissa exited her room and wa
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CHAPTER 26"Whatever is begun in ang
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"I was eighteen," she began, not ev
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times while we were in Ireland, the
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"How do you think? It felt great to
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does God intend. Once we come to th
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"It was . . . theirs were the only
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CHAPTER 27not.""Half the work that
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Malcolm made his way noiselessly do
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"But why? We couldn't come up with
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Brian could see the faint hue refle
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"I'd like to think he may never hav
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"Dr. Bandstra told Brian and me we'
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"We need to get something out in th
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"It may be a money pit, but it's im
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"Good afternoon, everyone. Good to
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the psychologist in consternation.D
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he was sitting. Somehow he had know
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her. Neil continued his meal."Well?
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question, not wanting to relate any
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"I had the weirdest dream," he bega
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"Yeah, and that's not all," he moti
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Page 550: "Well—""I'll tell you what the di
Page 554: "Well . . . sure.""Then his evasion
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CHAPTER 35"The devil has his elect.
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pass.""But why kill Father Benedict
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thing.""I do think, though," she sa
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"The Colonel must believe ..." he s
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fake an extraterrestrial event, and
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lessed, humanity won't just cry out
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"Would you like me to do it'?" she
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"So I'm an unemployed North Dakotan
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wanted?" she questioned, scarcely a
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