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"Are you She stared back at hily

all right?" she asked

Fawcett didn't answer He ran fro Lucas and Mercier, ere still conferring in hushed tones They looked up startled as Fawcett frantically pounded around them

"Follow

They stood stone-still for ain utter confusion

Then Lucas reacted and dashed after Fawcett, with Mercier bringing up the rear

Fawcett burst into the Oval Office and stopped dead, his face going white

The President of the United States looked up and so over my appointment schedule?"

Less than a mile away, in a secure rooovoy sat in front of a large monitor and read the deciphered brainwaves of the President The display screen showed the thoughts in English while a nearby printer produced paper copies translated into Russian

He sipped a cup of thick black coffee, then stood up, keeping his eyes on the green letters, the heavy bunched eyebrows raised in controlled conceit

From a distance, the President's brain transht, speech pattern, and even the words spoken by others nearby as they were received and committed to memory

The second stage of the Huckleberry Finn Project was a success

Lugovoy decided to wait a few e, the issuing of co certainty, his revered project would be taken over by the men in the Kremlin And then Chairman of the Party Antonov and not the President would direct policy for the United States

THE MOLTEN SUN SLIPPED BELow the western edge of the Aegean Sea as the ship cleared the Dardanelles and headed through the entle two-foot swells and a hot breeze set in from the African coast to the south

Soon the orange faded froether into a Solid curtain of black The ht caation beacon on the island of LesbosCaptain jahter Venice, stood on the bridge and kept a close watch over the bow