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The large force now escaping fronal and accelerate the process rapidly In six hours a trickle of water would appear on the far side of the dam near the top That trickle would scour out a channel, and the erosion that folloould quickly turn the flow into a torrent
The first stage of the disaster would follow as the waters of Lake Nasser flooded over the top, widening the channel in an unstoppable floreaking havoc on the Nile Valley below, but that was just the prelude
The second tunnel, far deeper in the da out a tunnel in the heart of the structure Eventually it would give way and a huge V-shaped section would collapse backward all at once The flood would become a tsunami
In a way, General Aziz had done thee about to be sent at Aswan and the actions Jinn was taking in the Indian Ocean, Sabah doubted any nation of the world would refuse their demands or dare to threaten them
Would the Aas flooded off the map and their southwestern states deprived of power and water at the saes Daht not
He flung the re away A half mile off, a camel waited for him He would climb on, pull the kaffiyeh around his face and disappear into the desert like the Bedouin had done for a thousand years or more
CHAPTER 47
KURT AUSTIN AWOKE IN A QUONSET HUT SEVERAL HOURS after being made a prisoner on Pickett’s Island I he would need the rest later, Kurt had lain down on the floor almost as soon as they’d been locked up He’d fallen asleep inhadn’t been a dream
The ed him from the hut to another hidden beneath the trees Inside he found a distinctlythat seemed like a tribunal of some kind Leilani and Ishmael stood beside him
From behind a desk at the end of the hut another islander of Aboriginal and Polynesian appearance stood and was presiding over the hearing as one of the judges He was taller and leaner than the man who’d found theht He had a tousle of gray in his black hair
“I ahteenth Roosevelt of Pickett’s Island,” the man said
“The eighteenth Roosevelt?” Kurt repeated
“That is correct,” the judge said “And who a? You will state your names for the record”
“I’m the first Kurt Austin of the United States of America,” Kurt said “At least the first one I know of”
The judges and the others around them took a collective breath, and Kurt tried to