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"He caentwith the President on the yacht He didn't tell ht affair"

"He kept it from you?"

"'Shakespeare' is tight-ar I'm sorry as hell, Oscar"

A wave of frustration swept Lucas God, he thought, the leaders of the world's leading superpoere like kids when it came to their own security

"It's happened," said Lucas sharply "So we'll make the best of it Where is your detail?"

"Standing on the dock," answered Rhinemann

"Send them down to Mount VerDon and back up Blackowl's people I want that yacht cordoned off tighter than a bass drum"

"Will do"

"At the slightest hint of trouble, call ht at the command post"

"You got a line on so?" Rhinemann asked

"Nothing tangible," Lucas replied, his voice so hollow it see that the President and the next three men in line for his office are all in the same place at the same time scares the hell out of me"

"WE'VE TURNED AGAINST THE CURRENT" Pitts voice was quiet, almost casual, as he stared at the color video screen on the Klein hydro scan sonar that read the seafloor "Increase speed about two knots"

Dressed in bleached Levi's, Irish knit turtleneck sweater and brown tennis shoes, his brushed hair lain back under a NUMA baseball cap, he looked cool and comfortable with a bored, indifferent air about him

The wheel moved slowly under the helmsman's hands and the Catawba lazily shoved aside the three-foot swells as she swept back and forth over the sea like a laer Trailing behind the stern like a tin can tied to the tail of a dog, the side scan sonar's sensor pinged the depths, sending a signal to the video display, which translated it into a detailed ie of the bottom

They took up the search for the nerve agent source in the southern end of Cook Inlet and discovered that the residual traces rose as they worked ard into Kamishak Bay Water samples were taken every half-hour and ferried by helicopter to the cheustine Island Amos Dover philosophically co hidden candy with an unseen voice giving "warmer" or "colder" clues