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“Good idea,” Cooive the Navy so its job”

This parting co at the Navy, but Casey didn’t come back at Coombs as he had at the earlier jibes from the White House aide He merely smiled

“Maybe he can,” he said

KANE TRIED TO GET a rise out of the man in black

“Guess we’re going to the mattresses,” he said as they walked to the elevator

“Huh?” Jones said

“From The GodfatherMafia talk”

“We’re not the Mafia, sir”

No, you’re not, Kane thought as he followed Jones fro another borrowed line from the movie

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“Don’t forget the cannoli,” he said

CHAPTER 14

A FEW MINUTES AFTER ONE O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING, AN inflatable pontoon boat softly buures dressed in black-and-green cae suits clambered up the side of the ship on rope ladders suspended frorapnel hooks They vaulted over the rail one by one and dashed across the deck as silently as the shadows they resembled

Except for the night-shift watch on the bridge, the creas sound asleep in their cabins, recovering from the exertions of the bathysphere launch and rescue Austin ake, however, and after staring at the ceiling, his ot dressed and made his way to the machine shop

He switched on the lights, and went over to exa glass, placed a desk la near the hilt Through the lens he saw that the flaas actually a le with a dot at each point