The Sum of All Fears.pdf - Delta Force

get a month or so of the fundamentals, real life instead of the stuff we do here
every day. That's one advantage we have over men, doc. You guys can't break away
like we women can. That may be Andrey Il'ych's problem. Who can he turn to for
advice? Where can he go for help? He's been there a long time. He's dealing with
a deteriorating situation, and he's running out of gas. That's what SPINNAKER
tells us, and it is consistent with the facts.'
'Except that we haven't heard anything like this from anyone else.'
'But he's our best guy for the inside stuff.'
'Which completes the circularity of the argument, Mary Pat.'
'Doc, you have the report, and you have my opinion,' Mrs Foley pointed out.
'Yes, ma'am.' Jack set the document on his desk.
'What are you going to tell them? ''Them' was the top row of the executive
branch: Fowler, Elliot, Talbot.
'I guess I go with your evaluation. I'm not entirely comfortable with it, but I
don't have anything to counter your position with. Besides, the last time I went
against you, turned out I was the one who blew the call.'
'You know, you're a pretty good boss.'
'And you're pretty good at letting me down easy.'
'We all have bad days,' Mrs Foley said, as she got awkwardly to her feet. 'Let
me waddle back to my office.'
Jack rose also and walked to open the door for her. 'When are you due?'
She smiled back at him. 'October thirty-first – Halloween, but I'm always late,
and they're always big ones.'
'You take care of yourself.' Jack watched her leave, then walked in to see the
Director.
'You'd better look this over.'
'Narmonov? I heard another SPINNAKER came in.'
'You heard right, sir.'
'Who's doing the write-up?'
'I will,' Jack said. 'I want to do some cross-checking first, though.'
'I go down tomorrow. I'd like to have it then.'
'I'll have it done tonight.'
'Good. Thanks, Jack.'
***
This is the place, Günther told himself halfway into the first quarter. The
stadium accommodated sixty-two thousand seven hundred twenty paying fans. Bock
figured another thousand or so people selling snacks and beverages. The game was
not supposed to be an important one, but it was clear that Americans were as
serious about their football as Europeans were. There was a surprising number of
people with multi-colored paint on their faces – the local team colors, of
course. Several were actually stripped to the waist and had their chests painted
up like football sweaters, complete with the huge numbers the Americans used.
Various exhortatory banners hung from the rails at the front of the upper decks.
There were women on the playing field selected for their dancing ability and
other physical attributes, leading the fans in cheers.
He also learned about the sovereignty of American television. This large raucous
crowd meekly accepted stoppage of the game so that ABC could intersperse the