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his continuing ignorance as to what the Ops people were planning. |
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The irony of Ryerson's situation was that his mortal enemy, Vincent Kellner, had assured his fame and fortune by making him the pool reporter for this venture. It was the chance he'd always dreamed of. Naturally, he was getting what pool reporters usually got: a mess of restrictions. It had been that way in the coalition's press pools in the Gulf, and it appeared it would continue to be so forever. The stupid public didn't understand how difficult it made his job; they had simply refused to respond to the media's complaints during the war against Saddam Hussein, or after it was over. |
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Thus far, Ryerson had learned two things. One was that the Canadians and the Americans knew there was something dangerous in the water, on the bottom of Hudson Bay, allegedly placed there by the Russians. The second thing he'd learned made his hair stand on end: that whatever the thing might be, it probably was radioactive, as evidenced by the antiradiation kits handed out so freely, even to him, by the crew chief on the Hercules. He'd almost forgotten to wear his protective paper zipper suit when he started on his rounds today. He pitied the crew that had to collect them and dispose of them at the end of each day here. |
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It was obvious that the whole camp's level of anxiety was rising in geometric progression. He kept hearing talk about December 7, just two days from now. Some sort of deadline? And Morgan and his buddies had hinted that the thing in the water was a nuclear device. That was impossible, of course, if the Russians had been the culprits. Aleksandr Cherny's government would never do such a mad thing. The Americanswell, possibly, but that would be so unutterably stupid that even the American military brass couldn't be guilty. |
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And yet, what about Captain Hook, the Russian who looked like the wrath of God come to earth in mortal form? He was with Morgan and Neville and Peters all the time, but not of their little group. Ryerson had never seen them in intimate |
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