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“What I find so fascinating is that Kessler is the Ger house you started to get your book in print—as it called? Raptor Press, I believe—is it coincidental that a condor is a kind of raptor? I don’t think so”

Cabrillo threw open the chopper’s door and shoved Kessler/ Cooper onto the ice In all his dealings with Cooper, Juan had kept his tone light, aler suddenly boiled over, and he seethed “We also discovered that after the plane crash, Ernst Kessler was accepted into the Gestapo, and was allowed to receiveat a lovely spot called Auschwitz His final orders before war’s end was a transfer to the Ger to work for Unit 731 in the Philippines

“You should have died that night and saved the world a lot of misery, you sick freak I have dealt with al-Qaeda assassins and Soviet torturers, and every perverted piece of sli I have ever reatest discoveries of all time, perhaps the inspiration for a most beloved Bible story, but instead you only cared about reaping death

“Well, Kessler, you have reaped what you’ve sown, and when I think about you freezing to death, tonight over dinner, I a to so”

“What happens now?” Julia asked as the chopper shot past the edge of the glacier and over open water

“He dies”

“I mean, with the ark”

“Oh that I’ve already contacted Kurt Austin at NUMA He told overnlacier With her copper botto the ancient wreck”

“I wonder what they will find”

Juan gave her a dreamy look “Who knows, maybe all the creatures of the world loaded two by two”

MAX HANLEY SAT ON A BENCH near the Griffith Park Observatory, overlooking don LA A shadow passed over his face, and when he looked up his son Kyle was standing over hiesture for hi off the boy as though it aves of heat

Kyle was staring off into the distance, so Max studied his profile There was a lot of the kid’s mother in hile tear rolled down Kyle’s cheek, and as if a floodgate had opened Kyle began to cry— deep, choking sobs that sounded like his soul was being torn apart He clutched at his father, and Max took him in his arms

“I am so sorry, Dad,” Kyle sobbed

“And I forgive you”

Because that’s what fathers do