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"Where would it be?"

"I wish I knew," Austin replied

"Nina is going to be disappointed"

"I know What say we go topside and deliver the bad news?"

"Fine with"

They powered the vertical thrusters, keeping a slow but steady pace, ho beacon above As they ascended they flashed their lights ahead and above toup on unseen obstructions The beaht stabbed the blackness in a corner of the garage, moved away for a second, then came back

"Kurt," he called out excitedly "There's so in the corner"

They stopped their ascent Austin sao red eyes glowing in the inky darkness

Having spent more than an hour in this otherworldly environe sea creature who'd ht at the twin orbs, and his pulse rate ratcheted up a few beats It couldn't be Both men hts on the corner

"Well, I'll be damned," they said in unison

43 DECADES BEFORE AUSTIN AND ZAVALA cut their way into the Andrea Doria's garage a ship's officer presciently pictured the dire consequences of an ar around in the hold during a storm at sea To head off that possibility the vehicle was lashed by strong cables passed over the truck's body and bolted to the floor More than fifty years later the cables still held the truck in place at a right angle to the vertical wall that had once been the garage floor

The black body was mottled with rust, and the tire rubber had softened into an evi-llooking h, and the truck itself was in one piece After as thorough an inspection as they could make, Austin and Zavala left the hull and went back into the open sea The saturation divers had retreated to the dry comfort of the pressurized bell Austin didn't blaht times as difficult to breathe as air from a scuba tank

Austin called McGinty "Tell Mr Donatelli we've located the truck"

"Goddae?"

"With a little luck and the right equip list"