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Tate nodded to a woon appeared on the ht blue sky No other ships were visible, and the ie seemed to be filmed from far away

“They’ll be ready for whatever you come at them with,” Juan said

A sht in Rio?”

Juan seethed “I knew you were responsible for that”

“I planned it fro CIA officer Ballard here was instruents I knew Overholt would hire you to extract them”

Juan was repulsed by how pleased Tate seemed with himself

“How did you do it?” Juan demanded

“I can’t give everything away to you Let’s just say it involves a weapon that’s been lost for a hundred years We’ve tweaked it, naturally, but the principles are virtually unchanged from when it was first developed”

“It may have worked on our sub, but there’s no way it’ll work on a ship the size of the Oregon, whatever it is”

“Oh, it has Remember the Kansas City? Why do you think it went down in the first place?”

Juan was stunned “You sank a US nuclear sub just to prove you could do it?”

“A other reasons,” Tate said “But that’s not what I want to do to the Oregon Iine what I could do with another ship like the Portland I think I’ll rechristen the Oregon as the Eugene”

Juan gagged at the thought of Tate ever setting foot on his ship, let alone co her

“They would die before letting you hijack the Oregon”

Tate smiled and pointed at Juan “Exactly When my helicopter lands on the deck of your ship, there lers who haven’t died, but the assault teauess what?”