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"What is he pointing at?" asked Briscoe

Rudolph peered over the side and then looked up "A flotation vest with Aleksandr Gorchakov stamped on it"

"I have a floating body," announced Angus, peering through binoculars "Make that four bodies But not for long There are shark fins circling the water around them"

"Throw a few shells from the BOFORS at the bloody butchers," Briscoe ordered "I want the bodies in one piece so they can be examined Send out boats to retrieve whatever debris they can find

So to want as much evidence as we can collect"

As the twin forty-uns opened up on the sharks, Avondale turned to Angus

"Das on, if you ask me What do you make of it?"

Angus turned and gave the first officer a slow grin "It would seehtered for two centuries, the whales finally have their revenge"

Pitt sat behind the desk in his office for the first ti with a Sea Hawk dive knife he used as a letter opener He said nothing, waiting for a response from Admiral Sandecker who sat across from him

He had arrived in Washington early that one directly to the e, where he spent the next six hours writing up a detailed report on his discoveries on Kunghit Island and offering his suggestions on how to deal with the underwater acoustics The report seeors of the past few days Now he resigned hi other men, more qualified men, to deal with the problem and come up with the proper solutions

He swung around in his chair and gazed out theat the Poto on the deck of Ice Hunter, the look of fear and desperation in her face He felt furious with hied the kidnapping of Maeve's children by her father on board Ice Hunter Maeve had reached out to the only nize her distress That part of the story Pitt had left out of his report

Sandecker closed the report and laid it on Pitt's desk "A remarkable bit of fancy footwork A miracle you weren't killed"

"I had help froood people," Pitt said seriously

"You've gone as far as you can go on this thing I' you and Giordino to take ten days off

Go home and work on your antique cars"