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'Petty Officer Vincent is cleared higher than I am. Isn't that right?' 'Yes, sir, Admiral's always right, sir,' the driver observed, as he headed off towards Bangor. 'You got a problem, Bart.' 'How big?' 'A unique problem, skipper,' Jones said, lapsing back to the time when he and Mancuso had done some interesting things aboard USS Dallas. 'It's never happened before.' Mancuso read his eyes. 'Got pictures of the kids?' Jones nodded. 'You bet. How are Mike and Dominic doing?' 'Well, Mike's looking at the Air Force Academy.' 'Tell him the oxygen rots your brain.' 'Dominic's thinking CalTech.' 'No kidding? Hell, I can help him out.' The rest of the drive occupied itself with small talk. Mancuso swept into his office and closed the soundproof door behind Jones after ordering coffee from his steward. 'What's the problem, Ron?' Jones hesitated just a fraction before answering. 'I think somebody was tracking Maine.' 'Track an Ohio? Come on.' 'Where is she now?' 'Heading back out to sea, as a matter of fact. Blue Crew is embarked. She links up with a 688 when she clears the strait for some noise checks, then clears to her patrol area.' Mancuso could discuss almost anything with Jones. His company consulted on the sonar technology for all submarines and anti-submarine platforms in the U.S. fleet, and that necessarily included a lot of operational information. 'Got any Gold Crew guys on base now?' 'The captain's off on vacation. XO's here, Dutch Claggett. Know him?' 'Wasn't he on the Norfolk? Black guy, right?' 'That's right.' 'I've heard good stuff about him. He did a nice job on a carrier group on his command quals. I was riding a P-3 when he kicked their ass.' 'You heard right. He's being deep-dipped. This time next year he'll be taking command of a fast-attack.' 'Who's his skipper?' 'Harry Ricks. Heard of him, too?' Jones looked at the floor and muttered something. 'I got a new guy working for me, retired chief whose last tour was with Ricks. Is he as bad as I hear?' 'Ricks is a super engineer,' Mancuso said. 'I mean it. He's a genius at that stuff.' 'Fine, skipper, so are you, but does Ricks know how to drive?' 'Want some coffee, Ron?' Mancuso gestured at the pot. 'You might want Commander Claggett here, sir.' Jones rose and got his own coffee. 'Since when have you turned diplomat?' 'Command responsibilities, Ron. I never told outsiders about the crazy stuff you
did on Dallas.' Jones turned and laughed. 'Okay, you got me there. I have the sonar analysis in my briefcase. I need to see his course tracks, depth records, that stuff. I think there's a good chance Maine had a trailer, and that, Bart, is no shit.' Mancuso lifted his phone. 'Find Lieutenant Commander Claggett. I need him in my office at once. Thank you. Ron, how sure – ' 'I did the analysis myself. One of my people looked it over and caught a whiff. I spent fifty hours massaging the data. One chance in three, maybe more, that she was being trailed.' Bart Mancuso set his coffee cup down. 'That's really hard to believe.' 'I know. That very fact may be skewing my analysis. It is kinda incredible.' It was an article of faith in the United States navy that its fleet ballistic-missile submarines had never, not ever, not once been tracked while on deterrence patrol. As with most articles of faith, however, it had caveats. The location of American missile-sub bases was not a secret. Even the United Parcel Service deliverymen who dropped off packages knew what to look for. In its quest for cost-efficiency, the Navy mainly used civilian security officers – 'rentacops' – at its bases. Except that Marines were used wherever there were nuclear weapons. Wherever you saw Marines, there were nukes about. That was called a security measure. The missile boats themselves were unmistakably different from the smaller fast-attack subs. The ship names were on the Navy register, and the sailors of those ships wore ballcaps identifying them by name and hull number. With knowledge available to anyone, the Soviets knew where to station their own fast-attack boats to catch the American 'boomers' on the way out to sea. At first this had not been a problem. The first classes of Soviet fast-attack submarines had been equipped with 'Helen Keller' sonars that could neither see nor hear, and the boats themselves had been noisier than unmuffled automobiles. All that had changed with the advent of the Victor-III class, which approximated a late American 594-class in radiated noise levels, and began to approach adequacy in sonar performance. Victor-IIIs had occasionally turned up at the Juan de Fuca Strait – and elsewhere – waiting for a U.S. missile sub to deploy, and in some cases, since harbor entrances are typically restricted waters, they had established contact and held on tight. That occasionally had included active sonar-lashing, both unnerving and annoying to American sub crews. As a result, U.S. fast-attack subs often accompanied missile submarines to sea. Their mission was to force the Soviet subs off. This was accomplished by the simple expedient of offering an additional target for sonar, confusing the tactical situation, or sometimes by forcing the Russian submarine off-track by ramming – called 'shouldering,' to defuse that most obscene of marine terms. In fact, American boomers had been tracked, only in shallow water, only near well-known harbors, and only for brief periods of time. As soon as the American subs reached deep water, their tactics were to increase speed to degrade the trailing sub's sonar performance, to maneuver evasively, and then go quiet. At that point – every time – the American submarine broke contact. The Soviet sub lost its track, and became the prey instead of the hunter. Missile submarines typically had highly-drilled torpedo departments, and the more aggressive skippers would have
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closer to home. Still, the survivor
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Skyhawk strike-fighters with nuclea
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'Have some tea for me when I get ba
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diesel fuel, missile propellant, an
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'Most politicians do,' van Damm obs
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forget the UN. Israel won't like it
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igidity must have been a reminder t
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'Quietly,' Riley agreed. Ten minute
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'Roger that, Dennis.' 'How long you
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On hitting bone, it fragmented. The
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focused mind gave its orders to a r
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guarded as always. No. He would not
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Hopkins today, though it took him h
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'Those punks ever come back?' Jack
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the wind, and . . . now! The logger
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more. The preliminary indications o
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graduate-school expertise that the
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they had accomplished was to anger
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Lord. The government either didn't
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they saw or too angry, he would nev
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down between the cobblestones. The
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intercepting the tape, but it's a l
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day. Inside an hour, he was on the
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'On the way back, I turn left at th
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'What makes you believe that?' the
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'Want a paper, sir?' the attendant
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.' the story read. 'Informed source
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driving an unobtrusive vehicle on a
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his vocation might have been. A lin
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obtuse of men would be able to tell
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in the Post. Charlie chased skirts,
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It was hot here on the streets of T
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national security to an obsession.
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America's most dependable ally in t
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look on the face of his secretary.
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adio. The post-mortern examination
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Over that time the foolish ones had
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'Yeah,' Adler said with a grin. 'Th
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shade from a canopy, as Ryan was co
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Prince Ali was stunned by the quest
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what Grierson would have thought of
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than sixty thousand yards. If he go
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expect it, and Ricks knew that he w
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hide her disapproval, Jack noted fr
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'Any congressman who bitches about
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'Come along with us. Brent wants to
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his people. Would they even send hi
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distinguish between a truthful answ
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'Yes.' The car stopped briefly. Rus
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about three hours. *** Qati faced h
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'It's all a trick!' Defense insiste
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Bramante, carried on by Raphael, Mi
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Professional diplomats, some of the
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along New England lanes attest to t
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'Aye aye, sir. You're not getting y
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'Somebody's been here!' She pointed
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them sit on the trailers. It was ra
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despite what his son had said. The
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Cardinal D'Antonio finally allowed
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was, but informing them of the best
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of scholarly study were the fundame
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he'd be sufficiently tired to sleep
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guns belonging to the Syrian army.
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accomplish. It was a thought in whi
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'The fins were probably stripped of
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sandbags. A few ropes secured it in
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elax, else the job would burn him u
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and so the best and brightest offic
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States of America, and their host,
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expected anything else, but Fowler
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president had allowed that to happe
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Elizabeth?' 'Love to. I have the mo
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to make her play, and she knew that
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'There has been nothing like this i
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. . but why, then . . . ? Suddenly
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*** Andrey Il'ych Narmonov spoke br
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Ghosn removed the detonators one by
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opportunities like this come along
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compromised at three stages: first,
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Ghosn strained to keep his voice le
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'How's life treating you, Jack?' th
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useful. We'll have the money to you
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silence ' - possible aspect change
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was close enough for a high-probabi
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enough that he kept coming back. It
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She made her decision calmly. In th
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Flying west is always easier than f
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Brigadier General Abraham Ben Jakob
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merchant. He had the intelligence t
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'I was wrong. It was not a question
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everyone. Finally, he waved for sil
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The demonstrations began the next d
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focused a little more tightly. 'Nei
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'Günther may have some valuable co
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teams on patrol were in constant ra
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out of a movie. The Arab in questio
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constellation of stars in the heave
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towards the Dutch girl, if that's w
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take another turn, and vanish down
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'There will be some important openi
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ucks ahead.' 'Never count your winn
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Günther had rented a Mercedes Benz
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the plutonium produced at Greifswal
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help, man, any way I can.' 'There i
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then?' 'Will you help?' Ghosn asked
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stuff that Khrushchev wanted to cha
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Gulfstreams that were used by anyon
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and 'dumb' in the same sentence. 'W
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Jack walked to the corner to pour h
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sharp.' 'He can't keep control of h
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four knots.' 'Reduce speed four kno
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Page 245 and 246: Ghosn nodded. The man was right, ev
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Page 273 and 274: 'I've been thinking.' 'About what?'
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Page 281 and 282: 'I didn't break any rules, skipper,
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'She won't get out, and it's dinner
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'Pure speculation on his part - all
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Cabot looked up. 'Yeah, that's the
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'Oh, the total will be less than tw
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as magical engines of destruction,
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couldn't get down to business until
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thirty-six hours. 'I refuse to be s
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'Yes, sir, something like that, but
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'That's right,' the National Securi
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House wasn't exactly new either, wa
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captain and the Admiral, technician
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might all be some CIA trick that's
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'It really is amazing,' Ghosn said.
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'I'm going outside for a piss,' his
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'Back to the bugging equipment. We
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'Drop speed to sixteen knots, my au
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in, even to the point of playing ca
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to make the weapon portable. That i
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paper at home, only to find the off
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Holtzman.' 'What do you mean?' 'I m
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'Fowler is vain, he is far weaker a
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Jacqueline's crying increased in pi
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energy off the Primary impacts of t
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he'd expected much else from Marcus
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case privilege does not apply. Now,
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only more anger. She needed advice.
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'Yes. Two tritium reservoirs. I pre
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to the game. Ricks is nothing near
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She looked up, and her eyes were st
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hundred straws. 'Bundle thirty-six.
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I've been in the top one percent of
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the British Airways jet for Heathro
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'Ja. Thank you, Herr Ghosn.' 'Now w
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Friend was every bit as substantial
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did not do for his own. He hadn't l
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It would be wellprotected, in the c
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shortened it. Wasn't that just grea
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minutes after picking Ryan up - tra
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to smooth off his edges. Chavez, sh
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maybe three. We had to rescue a squ
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'Says who!' the youth said, hardly
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. .' 'All behind him, Cathy. Honest
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field of fire in all directions. He
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crews of the 89th Military Airlift
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idealist who had graduated from Col
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eight-thirty in the evening and dro
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he could observe the arrival of the
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'Caroline,' Cathy said, sticking he
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trying to say something to my face
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had in mind, but he didn't really c
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nightie back on, and on her way bac
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'That's right.' 'I like the way you
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on for a minute or so. 'Is the oper
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and play with the kids.' 'Good man.
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'Is that what you want?' 'This work
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'Best estimate is one-one-five-K ya
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The proper time was now. That would
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nickel-cadmium, and all, he saw, fu
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Dubinin thought about his intellige
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change in the tone of his reports o
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eginning a careful check of all rel
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have other payoffs when the troops
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'What we plan to do is dangerous.'
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'I will think about that.' The man
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'Didn't you have a run-in once . .
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he was sure that bringing this one
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was securely fastened, Everyone abo
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It's harder than I thought.' Jack m
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'You look like you're ready to drop
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The eyes opened slowly. 'What time
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'About how it looks,' Pete said. 'T
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speed?' 'Good point. So, we trail o
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'Dan, we have enough to prosecute a
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aircraft. The advance security peop
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there yet. A bitter northeast wind
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And that, he decided, was that. Gho
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drink, and consume it in sixty-eigh
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demise of Narmonov. It helps to thi
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'Can't seem to figure this one out,
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something as dumb as a little-boy's
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'What are you telling me?' the serg
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uranium 235, which though thin weig
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For several more nanoseconds, this
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locked it. The second installment e
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third-ranking man at this post, he
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collection of red brick dwellings f
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to attenuate the panic that might c
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'At least four commercial satellite
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are ways to beat it, especially if
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ief code group. 'Great time for a d
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'Sir, we got the usual news broadca
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was a blade-rate, that was a propel
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'Coming home in the C-141, somewher
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en route to the Navy's munitions te
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intended for use in strike-damage e
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Ernie Richards, a former attack pil
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'Why didn't you tell us that?' Fowl
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noise. Over five and we'll lose the
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y landline or microwave links to Mo
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'The Americans have not done this,'
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*** 'So, what the hell is going on?
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another aircraft's threat receiver.
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seem willing to learn, and that was
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tossed under the tank. Bock took th
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'Captain Rosselli, sir.' 'Have we h
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*** 'As you have probably been told
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MAINTENANCE OF PUBLIC ORDER, AND TO
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HORRIBLE EVENT, AND ALSO TO BEGIN R
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The target was about twenty-five hu
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In the trees with the Bradleys, the
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an with it anyway. The one thing ab
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omb,' the S&T guy observed. 'Damage
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'Hoskins.' 'Dan Murray, Walt. Get s
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'What do you mean?' Callaghan shout
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thirty minutes separate their land-
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WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED A REPORT THAT
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have enough to make any kind of inf
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American fighters were in the area,
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'Larry, it's hotter here than it is
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'General, we've pushed them back ac
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ORDERS, AND THERE WERE NO SUCH ORDE
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mountains, still outlined in orange
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There were just too many redundanci
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pair dodged the first wave of SAMs,
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think to have it fly to Hagerstown
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'Look, Ryan, we are in control up h
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calculations in his head instantly.
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' "Restrain your forces"? God damn
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'One, we know that they have missin
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varieties of cancer breaking out in
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that.' 'Russell was a suspected ter
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'Those are the trucks they use to t
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what to do.' 'How important is Main
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'Lost it, the curve in the towed ar
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'No names, just these frames from A
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'I wish him luck.' *** The tactical
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'Uh, General, the best number we ha
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'This is Roger Durling. Hello, Ryan
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operators stood behind a shield and
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take damned good care of those thin
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happen until the SS-18 with his nam
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myself, okay? I'm not sure what scr
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'Send back, "Why has your president
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nearby. 'We don't have enough peopl
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'Cancelled?' Ricks asked incredulou
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Ryan looked up. He'd had his drink,
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Ryan turned. 'Oh? I didn't know. I'
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that he had the time. *** 'Hello, R
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emotions, but now the reverse seeme
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'Correct, General.' 'Deputy Directo
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off.' Ryan turned as he heard a lou
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the pavement had another effect. It
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that - excuse me. I didn't, did I?
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deeply-lined face and black, angry
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Jack didn't know what emotion he wa
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