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eas Dorsett pays off high-ranking government officials, his mines stay open"

"There's the Canadians," said Pitt "If given the reins, the Mounties would go in and close the Kunghit Island rants for slave labor"

"So what's stopping the the mine?"

Pitt recalled Inspector Stokes' words about the bureaucrats and members of Parliament in Dorsett's wallet "The same barriers; paid cronies and shreyers"

"Money makes money," Sandecker said heavily "Dorsett is too well financed and well organized to topple by ordinary methods The man is an incredible piece of avaricious machinery"

"Not like you to embrace a defeatist attitude, Adame to Arthur Dorsett"

Sandecker's eyes took on the look of a viper about to strike "Who said anything about forfeiting the game?"

Pitt enjoyed prodding his boss He didn't believe for an instant that Sandecker would walk away froht "What do you intend to do?"

"Since I can't order an armed invasion of commercial property and possibly kill hundreds of innocent civilians in the process, or drop a Special Forces tea excavations, I'm forced to take the only avenue left open for me"

"And that is?" Pitt prompted

"We go public," Sandecker said without a flicker or change in his expression "First thing tomorrow I call a press conference and blast Arthur Dorsett as the worst monster unleashed on humanity since Attila the Hun I'll reveal the cause of the s and lay the blaress to lean on the State Departovernments of Canada, Chile and Russia to close all Dorsett operations on their soil Then we'll sit back and see where the chips fall"

Pitt looked at Sandecker in long, slow ad in stor a damn for the torpedoes or the consequences "You'd take on the devil if he looked cross-eyed at you"

"Forgiveoff steam You knoell as I there will be no press conference Without solid, presentable evidence I would gain nothing but a quick trip into a enerating You cannot sireed that leads to power The pathetic thing about such ive it away to the needy" Sandecker paused and lit his cigar with a flourish Then he said coldly, "I don't kno, but I swear by the Constitution I' to the barn so hard his bones will rattle"

Maeve put on a good face through her ordeal At first she had henever she was alone in the setown that her father's aides had leased for her Panic swept her heart at thoughts of whatto her twin boys on Gladiator Island She wanted to rush to their sides and sweep them away to safety, but she was powerless She actually saw herself with theht the incredible resources of her father She never detected anyone, but she kneithout doubt that his security people atching her every move

Roy Van Fleet and his wife, Robin, who had taken Maeve under her wing, invited her to join the a party thrown by a wealthy owner of an undersea exploration co to take no for an answer and insisting she put a little fun in her life, never realizing the torh