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the San Francisco cops when the report came in from the Highway Patrol. I invited myself along. I got there just in time to see a Bronco being hoisted out of the sea and up the slide. There were three dead guys in the car, local punkstogether with an arsenal of weapons, shotguns, assault rifles, handgunsand grenades. The front end of the car and the windshield were shot to hell. The sheriff's people found nine-millimeter shell casings across the road." Ryerson's voice reflected his satisfaction. "They haven't put it together yet, but I have. It was Morgan's style." |
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Marina sighed in disgust for her hired killers. No one could say they were subtle or clever, what with their burning crosses, military fatigues, shaved heads, and Nazi flags. All that armament, and apparently this lot had failed to survive a single middle-aged Marine. |
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She dreaded having to inform Piotr Kondratiev that her imitation soldiers had done only half the task set for them. That would not be pleasant. She had better send the message now, so he could digest it before they met face to face. She had argued with him, saying that killing Grau and the Neville woman might draw much more attention to the Neville accident than just letting the two of them wander around the country telling their story. But Piotr had insisted, saying that whatever happened to them would just point to the Americans as the culprits. And he'd been right. Every news-cast she'd seen carried a background report on the downing of the airplane at Hudson Bay, together with the fact that Anna Neville and the CCND claimed an American missile as the cause. He had understood how this American free press worked, their pugnacity and their persistence, their adversarial stance. At least some of them would always believe the worst about Washington. |
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"That is a fantastic story, Yosip," she said, her voice filled with admiration. "Can you document it?" |
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"I will send you two thousand dollars. Hang up now," she |
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