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Nixon stared at the clipboard with the sheet of paper Cabrillo had prepared earlier “Looks like Ross wants earpiece coround operators, with a secondary channel to reach the ship”

“Make sure the batteries are charged, and check everything out,” Hanley said “I’ll break out a repeater we can place on Barra Hill so we’re not using local channels”

“Better place a beacon up there, too,” Nixon said, glancing at the clipboard “Murphy wants a fixed targeting point if he needs to loose a missile”

“Murphy,” Hanley said, shaking his head, “he’d drive a thuehammer”

Nixon turned on an exhaust vent, then slid his leg over the motorcycle and poked the kick starter Theit off, he moved toward the second motorcycle and repeated the process The hours passed as the pair of men

checked then double-checked the equipment

AT the same instant, closer to the stern, Mark Murphy was in the ar equipes, ti the walls were a series of recessed cases that housed autounpowder, metal and oil

Parts of a US Army M-16 sat atop a piece of cloth on the bench Murphy pushed the button on a digital tian to asseain, then raised his hands in the air Oneover to an aan to remove banana clips and load them with different types of ordnance

“God, I love my job,” he said aloud

THE van was entering the bridge leading from Macau to Taipa

“The Minutemen,” Cabrillo said “Where did you come up with that name?”

“It could be construed as an hoe to Paul Revere and the revolutionary way,” Truitt said, laughing

“Wouldn’t that be Paul Revere and The Raiders?” Jones said

“But in fact,” Truitt continued, “it’s the name of the band that was already hired”

“Won’t it be crohen two bands show up?” Ross asked