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“Come on, Eric, you’re smarter than that They had to hit everyone at the same time or someone would have radioed for help You can’t control when soates your earlier idea about food poisoning”

Stone looked chagrinned “Sorry You’re right Too h sleep”

“What if the attack on the Golden Daas an aberration and not part of their pattern of escalation?”

“What do you mean?”

“I don’t know It’s just a thought They had achieved nearly one hundred percent on that ship two o”

“The Destiny”

“Right The Destiny There wasn’t any reason to hit another ship They knew they had their system”

“So the people on the Daiped out to keep them quiet?”

Juan stood up as Donatella finished tying off the lines “I don’t know,” Juan repeated “Listen, we’ve got a charter jet waiting to take us to Manila I’ll call Langston and pass this along If he won’t go after Severance, at least he can get a warning out to the cruise lines about a potential terrorist threat”

Overholt would pass on Cabrillo’s information, he was certain, but he doubted much would be done In the years since 9/11, nonspecific threats came in all the tinored

“Donatella?”

“Oui, Capitaine”

“Would you e it to the account I set up with your boss”

“Of course, sir It would be my pleasure”

“His, too, I’m sure” Juan turned back to Eric “Keep on it and callnew”