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"I'll have a copy in his hands within ten minutes"

"Captain Hores?"

"Colonel?"

"Since aship is a naval operation, I'd like you to take command of the search"

"Gladly, Colonel I'll begin immediately"

Rojas stared thoughtfully at the wreckage littering the concrete floor

"There'll be hell to pay before this night is through," he muttered

Shortly before h search of the harbor and the waters outside the channel, he notified Rojas that the only ship he could not account for was the Lady Flah

Colonel Rojas was stunned when he examined the cruise liner's VIP

passenger list He deyptian and Mexican Presidents had disembarked for quarters on shore Not until it was confir with the ship did the horrible specter of a terrorist hijacking become evident

An extensive air search was launched at dawn Every aircraft the coentina and Brazil could put in the air scoured over 400,000 square kilometers of the South Atlantic

No sign of the Lady Flah was found

It was as though she had been sed by the sea

Two hands were running under his shirt and up his back He struggled to wake fro upward toward the shi surface, but never able to reach it He rubbed his eyes, saas still on the couch in his office, and rolled over, his gaze blocked by a pair of shapely legs

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