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“No,” Joe said, “I’m not a tourist I need to speak to the police Actually, I need to speak to the er”

“What kind of danger?” the guard asked suspiciously

Joe looked hi to destroy the dam”

CHAPTER 46

THE FIVE TRUCKS IN JINN’S CONVOY RUMBLED NORTH, eventually pulling off the main road and onto a dirt track They passed the da a peried shore of Lake Nasser

A half ate left conspicuously open and went through it Traveling in the cab of the lead truck, Sabah ordered the lights doused and had the drivers use night vision goggles

Blacked out in this e of the lake

“Turn the trucks around,” Sabah ordered “Back them in”

Sabah clis lined up side by side, the wide rareat crocodiles basking on the shore

Because the lake was so high froed Sabah estimated a hundred feet of concrete lay hidden beneath the water before the ramp intersected the natural lake bed

On his signal, the trucks began to ease down the raress in h open s

As the flatbeds began backing into the water, Sabah took a radio controller from his pocket He extended the antenna, pressed the poitch and pressed the first of four red buttons

In the back of the five trailers, netic seals around the yellow drums popped open The pressurized lids popped up and slid off to the side

A green light told Sabah the activation had been successful

Unseen by anyone, the silver sand of the , as if there were snakes hidden beneath the top layer, and beginning to clies of the barrels