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rain, but he was drenched with sweat. He had spent the last three quarters of an hour searching for Marina, who now called herself Ekaterina Marchenka, and who was missing.
It was possible that she had returned ashore from the diving platform in the confusion following the crash on the airstrip, but if she had, Ryerson had been unable to find her. That placed her either on the platform or the Trudeau, and the icebreaker had cast off for a destination as far away as possible an hour ago, after the plane crash. Surely Arkady Karmann wouldn't have gone with the Trudeau, and neither would Marina. There's no place for them to hide, he thought, without freezing to death in the process.
He had heard Harris paging Karmann repeatedly over the camp bullhorn. But judging from the number of times the message was being repeated, the Russian was nowhere to be found either. Ryerson was certain he had not come ashore.
And now, God help me, he thought, I have to gather my wits and act like I'm not scared shitless.
It was suddenly 0555 hours, just two and a half hours until blastoff. The time the press plane should have been leaving. Nothing in this whole damn mess has gone the way it was planned, he thought miserably. If Morgan really pulls this dive off, I'll owe him an apology. Not that I'd ever. actually do it, but I definitely would owe him.
Where is Marina Suslova?
Anna huddled in the corner of the crowded troop compartment of the helicopter, wrapped like an astronaut in her cadmium-impregnated antiradiation suit. It seemed to her that it had taken much too long a time to load the helo. Five of the remote vehicle team were aboard, the others were on the platform operating the remotely piloted vehicle. Two of the RPV crew on the helo were wearing ordinary diving gear under their antirad suits, but she had heard Morgan giving them express orders not to enter the water. A large tank of fresh water took up most of the space near the door. A hose a good

 
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