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"Not at all I just need some direction"

"I wouldn't think that you'd want to tangle with that old grizzly bear again after he mauled two of your men"

"He was smart They were dumb"

"I don't like loose ends, but he is no longer a priority With the infor Those lawyers ere in my office I'd like you to dispose of them Do your best to make it look accidental An explosion in their office, perhaps"

Doyle rose froht away"

After Doyle left, Gant went to hisand looked out at Massachusetts Avenue The fools in this city thought that they were living in the most powerful country in the world They never understood that anization of Elites that he was part of knew that political ends were not achieved by guns alone but by close surveillance and total control of all communication

Goals that would soon be realized

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Austin leaned against a rail on the Throckh binoculars at the ship that had suddenly appeared from the heart of the sea The vessel listed drunkenly to one side, and sat so low in the water that the three-foot seas were splashing onto the deck By soed to stubbornly resist being pulled back to its watery grave

As an experienced salvage expert, Austin had pulled objects of every size and shape off the botto froested that the ship should not be afloat at all At the sas happen at sea He was not a superstitiousthe world's oceans had made the unexplainable commonplace He was no different from many sailors who bestowed vessels with human qualities The ship seemed determined to tell its story And Austin was just as determined to hear what it had to say

"What's keeping her afloat?" said Zavala

"I don't knohat's keeping her up or why she popped to the surface," Austin said "She could have been stuck in the o Maybe the whirlpool shook things loose, and it rode to the surface like a wood chip" He noticed Zavala's skeptical expression, and said, "Okay, I don't have the foggiest idea why she came to the surface and why she hasn't sunk Are you up for taking a closer look at her?"

Like Austin, Zavala rapped in a blanket that the crew had supplied when they ca to settle in with a bottle of reposada, but I can be ready to get up in the chopper again as soon as I change into some dry clothes"

Austin had forgotten that his clothes were soaking wet from his ocean dip

"I was thinking of going over by boat so we could go aboard and look around," he said