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San Franciscothey all stemmed from that one happening. At first, he had agreed with Grau and Neville and the CCND that the crash had been caused by an American missile. Now that he thought about it, however, Marina Suslova had been very curious, too curious, about Morgan and Anna Neville and their travels. When he'd called from Frisco to tell her what had happened, she'd turned coy on him about the Bronco. When she got cute it meant, he had learned over time, that she probably already knew more about events than he did. That fact made Morgan's insistence that the Russians had shot down the Nevilles' plane more plausible. Not probable, just yet, but plausible. |
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Damn, Ryerson thought, if only I'd paid more attention, clone a bit more digging before I came up here, checking out the movements of American ships and so on. But no, he'd been sunk in a funk over his bad luck in losing his job. Now that he was on the scene, he'd better be alert, receptive to every bit of information he could gather. |
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The camp now held almost five hundred people. Not one of the fuckers wanted to spend a few minutes with him, explaining just what the hell was going on. He kicked the edge of the airstrip's steel webbing viciously with his boot. |
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An armed sentry stood at the ladder to the improvised control tower, watching Ryerson's approach with a typical kind of blank stare. They all hate me, Ryerson thought, aggrieved; I'm the token journalist, and I'm not to be trusted, But it was only partially personal, he knew. The military's distrust of the media had begun long ago, in Vietnama war that most military men, some of whom were now generals and admirals, thought was lost when the press made a separate peace with the enemy and turned public opinion against the war. Considering the manner in which the politicians ran that war, choosing bombing targets in the Oval Office and micromanaging every move the military made, Ryerson thought, the accusation was unfair. But there it was, and that resentment had continued to color military thinking. |
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