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“How big a tanker are we talking about?” Giordino asked
“The Mayweather is just under three hundred feet, a typical Great Lakes tanker”
“We’d better scour every available salvage resource in the area,” Pitt said, “and get them to Detroit as soon as possible”
“I’m already on it,” Gunn said
A pert wo a thick stack of mail “Welcotime secretary, said with a warm smile
“Thanks But I’ to think I should have stayed in Central America”
“And leave all the fun to Rudi? By the way, I was reviewing your calendar and see that you have a staff y review at four Shall I reschedule those, in light of the Detroit incident?”
“Yes, they’ll have to wait And can you leave a e with Loren’s office and ask if she can accoht?”
“Certainly You sure you’re up for adding a Washington fund-raiser to your plate?”
Pitt shook his head in mock distress “Not really I don’t knohich will be worse—attending a charity event filled with veno up a toxic oil spill”
“They both entail hazardous duty, but I think you ultimately were correct” She turned with a swivel of her hips to exit the office “You’d have been better off staying in Central America”
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After coordinating initial plans for the Mayweather salvage operation, Pitt borrowed an agency Jeep and drove to Reagan National Airport He parked next to an abandoned-looking hangar at the edge of the airfield, disabled an alar
Its dilapidated exterior stood in sharp contrast to what hts and faced a bright, open floor croith a glea display of transportation from yesteryear A beautifully restored Pull, while a polished aluminum Ford Tri-Motor airplane poked its nose out of a corner A rare jet-powered Messersched with an outboard motor, all mementos of past exploits But most of the floor space was filled with Pitt’s collection of classic automobiles from the first half of the twentieth century
Pitt lugged his bags past the ered a moment by a freshly painted chassis and a stack of primed body parts Pitt had recently acquired the coaria, and he silently la more time to restore the cla