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"Yes, steel-trap Chandler I served under hio

Still thinks ar Horatio defending the bridge"

"What are your orders?" asked Pitt

"To assist you and Dr Sharp on whatever project you've got going

Admiral Sandecker is to act as a direct line to the Senator and the Pentagon That's about all I know"

"No mention of the White House?"

"None that's down on paper" He turned as Lily and the Ad way down the inside stairs, walked out the front door As lily eer introduced Hollis to Sandecker, Hollis pulled Pitt aside

"What the devil is going on around here?" he muttered "A circus?"

Pitt grinned "You don't kno close you are"

"Where do my special forces fit in?"

"When the free-for-all starts," said Pitt, g deadly serious, "your job is to blow the store"

The backhoe the Special Operations Forces had transported froe Wide treads moved its massive bulk up the slope to a site s After ten minutes of instruction and a little practice, Pittthe steel behemoth on his own He raised the two-and-a-half-iant claw, striking the hard ground with a loud clang

In less than an hour a trench six th had been carved on the rear slope of the hill That was as far as the excavation progressed when a Chevrolet four-wheel Blazer staff car cah the underbrush with a truckload of ar in its dust

The wheels had not yet stopped turning when a captain with a raht back and the eyes of a man driven by an inspired dedication to arround

"This is a restricted area," he snapped so not to reenter You must remove your equipment and leave immediately"