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“Détente,” he said, explaining Then he snapped his fingers at one of the Vietnamese crew to share a drink”
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Dirk Pitt found hi in the mist on a low rise surrounded by tall pines and cedars He and Vice President Sandecker had hitched a ride on a B-1 bo at Mach 2, they’d arrived at Travis Air Force Base in Northern California nearly a full hour before they’d taken off, at least according to the local clock anyway
It had been a great ride, and one that Pitt enjoyed as a pilot He ht have enjoyed it more had he known the purpose of the trip
Froht them northwest It thundered across the landscape, finally setting thee overlooking Sonoma Lake
There Pitt and Sandeckerht have come to blows had Sandecker not been there to intervene
“Who do you people think you are? Hacking an NSA secure database?”
“I’d say it wasn’t all that secure if we could do it in a day,” Pitt replied, though he realized there were few people out there with skills like Yaeger’s
“Beyond that,” Pitt added, “I wouldn’t have needed to if you’d have been forthco with some answers about Tesla and a theory he either burned or hid seventy years ago”
“So you admit it?”
“Sure do,” Pitt said “There’s a terrorist out there threatening to turn an entire country into a parking lot And I’le stone unturned in my effort to stop him If that ruffles your feathers, then I don’t happen to care One of one doith all hands Co to protect doesn’tto me”
Culver shrank back Years on Wall Street and in the boardroom, followed by a successful political career, had not prepared him for the kind of life-and-death intensity that Pitt unleashed The anger in Pitt’s opaline green eyes caused Culver to forget that he was an inch taller than Pitt and thirty pounds heavier