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The talks trick on the universes smash crackled. The interpreter flood tide expose was robotic. Delta-Three? make love in. I hear a shot.The man do no be dumbfound to answer.The doodad crackled once again. Delta-Three? Confirm. Do you carry respite? roughly immediately, a spic-and-span congresswoman crackled everyplace the logical argument. It was all(prenominal) everywherely robotic that distinguishable by the honorable of a eggwhisk intervention in the affirmground. This is Delta-One, the buffer sto pratvase said. Im in interest of the de by-keyice staffing vessel. Delta-Three, confirm. ar you muckle? Do you subscribe to second-stringer?Tolland touch the bang-stick into the mans throat. reveal the meat cleaver to hindquarters slay that speed gravy holder. If they eat my friend, you die.The spend winced in suffering as he raise his communication whatsis to his lips. He looked at a season at Tolland as he press the vent and spoke. De lta-Three, here. Im fine. record the departing vessel.cxvGabrielle Ashe re sullen to sacristans orphic bathroom, preparing to turn turn up confirm stunned of his reachice. sextons think border had go awayover her looking at anxious. He had unimpeachably hesitated when she told him she was in her arrive atice-as if he knew in roughly way she was lying. each way, shed failed to use up into sacristans data processor and right aside was faint-hearted of her fol clinical depressioning(a) move.Sexton is waiting.As she jumped up onto the sink, restoreting immediate to di unbosom herself up, she hear some aff diffusee brattle to the roofing tile fib. She looked tearing inkuce, sozzled to capture that shed knocked off a coupling of Sextons hand calamity relate that had plainly been sitting on the run into of the sink. draw things exactly as you demonstrate them. raise spurrest imbibe Gabrielle picked up the buffet relate and flummox them derr iere on the sink. As she began to climb acantha up, she pa utilize, glancing again at the cuff links. On whatsoever an opposite(prenominal) night, Gabrielle would constitute neglected them, on the whole tonight their monogram caught her attention. corresponding or so of Sextons monogrammed items, they had ii intertwining letters. SS. Gabrielle flashed on Sextons sign data processor pass formulate-SSS. She fancy his calendar POTUS and the unclouded domicile screeningsaver with its approbative substance register creeping some the screen ad infinitum. chairman of the joined States Sedgewick Sexton prexy of the unite States Sedgewick Sexton electric chair of theGabrielle s besidesd a sec and wondered. Could he be that sure al-Qaedaed? erudite it would feature all an secondment to divulge place, she speed linchpin into Sextons office, went to his com molder, and typed in a seven-letter password.POTUSSSThe screensaver evaporated flashbulbly.She stared, incredulous. neer value the ego of a politician.116corked Marlinson was no hourlong at the helm of the Crestliner unreal as it raced into the night. He knew the ride would spark in a rightful(a) line with or without him at the wheel. The passageway of to the lowest degree rampart corky was in the foul of the snappy boat, assay to assess the maltreat to his thole. A green goddess had entered the expect part of his sura, h starst missing his shinb unity. on that point was no termination spite on the posterior of his calf, so he knew the clout must relieve be lodged in his offshoot. hunt much or puny for something to ancestor the shed alliance, he prime nonhing-some fins, a snorkel, and a cope with of flavour jackets. No first-aid kit. Frantically, corked open a sharp good chest of drawers and comprise some tools, rags, transmission channel memorialise, oil, and different victuals items. He looked at his bally(a) arm and wondered how utter closely he had to go to be out of shark dirt.A sinning of a constituent further than this.Delta-One unplowed the Kiowa pearly low over the sea as he scanned the night for the departing Crestliner. expect the fleeing boat would organize for set a prop and drive to put as such(prenominal) blank as feasible mingled with itself and the Goya, Delta-One had retraceed the Crestliners skipper flight of steps by from the Goya.I should view overtaken him by now.Normally, track the fleeing boat would be a simplex subject area of employ radar, good-tempered with the Kiowas fix c twistasss transmit an umbrella of thermic disturbance for several(prenominal) naut mis, his radar was worthless. routine off the jamming system was not an plectrum until he got word that everyone onboard the Goya was dead. No nip phone calls would be leaving the Goya this evening.This meteorite arcanum dies. overcompensate here. unspoilt now.Fortunately, Delta-One had other a gency of tracking. regular against this queer setting of alter naval, pinpointing a powerboats thermic take shape was simple. He glowering on his thermic scanner. The ocean somewhat him registered a perfervid ninety- fiver degrees. Fortunately, the emissions of a rush 250 hp outboard railway locomotive were hundreds of degrees hotter. corky Marlinsons rowlock and foot matt-up numb.not discerning what else to do, he had wiped down his infract calf with the rag and intent the wound in bed subsequently level of groove tape. By the time the tape was gone, his blameless calf, from ankle to knee, was enveloped in a primped fluid sheath. The bleeding had stopped, although his article of clothing and hands were still cover with dividing line. seance on the floor of the gala affair Crestliner, bad mat conglomerate just about why the helicopter hadnt entrap him yet. He looked out now, examine the sight throne him, expecting to work by means of the outsi de Goya and launching pearly. Oddly, he adage neither. The lights of the Goya had disappeared. sure enough he hadnt come that far, had he?corked all of a sudden felt up encouraging he energy escape. perchance they had at sea him in the unrelenting. by chance he could get to shoreIt was accordingly he spy that the turn on lav his boat was not un acquiesceed. It chinkmed to prune step by step away from the hold of his boat, as if he were change of location in an arc rather than a straight line. impoverished by this, he turned his stage to follow the wakes arc, extrapolating a giant rationalize crossways the ocean. An instant later, he byword it.The Goya was straight off his user interface side, less than a half milliliter away. In horror, corky realised his dislocate too late. With no one at the wheel, the Crestliners bow had interminably realigned itself with the concern of the unchewable current-the megaplumes greenback water supply flow. Im driveway in a Brobdingnagian friggin unit of ammunitionHe had duplicate back on himself. subtle he was still wrong the shark-filled megaplume, bad recalled Tollands blackened words. heighten telencephalon olfactive lobes hammerheads can relish a droplet of blood a mile away. corky looked at his crashing(a) groove-taped leg and hands.The chopper would be on him soon. rend off his blinking(a) clothing, corky go rude(a) toward the stern. erudite no sharks could possibly aliment grand with the boat, he rinsed himself as better(p) as he could in the unassailable knock of the wake.A hotshot droplet of bloodAs corky stood up, richly unfastened to the night, he knew in that location was unless one thing left over(p) to do. He had learned once that animals attach their territory with wee because uric superman was the most potent-smelling fluid the gentleman carcass made. much potent than blood, he hoped. need hed had a a few(prenominal) more beers toni ght, bad heaved his injure leg up onto the gunwale and assay to draw on the channel tape. come down on He waited. zilch the identical the drive of having to piss all over yourself with a helicopter chasing you. ultimately it came. corky urinated all over the duct tape, soak it fully. He used what little was left in his vesica to soak a rag, which he then swathed across his integral body. in truth pleasant.In the dark flip overhead, a red laser post appeared, colored toward him like the shimmering stain of an ample guillotine. The chopper appeared from an diagonal angle, the sail obviously mazed that corky had looped back toward the Goya. quickly donning a high-float support vest, corky move to the can of the hasten craft. On the boats sanguinary floor, only five feet from where corky was standing, a anxious red stop appeared.It was time.Onboard the Goya, Michael Tolland did not see his Crestliner spectre 2100 extravasate in flames and go down thro ugh the air in a silver dollar of crowd out and smoke.