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from the Trudeau had ferried her out to the diving platform. Very soon his patience had been rewarded by the appearance of Arkady Karmann, Morgan's pet Russian, the gray-faced specter with the dramatic steel hook for a hand. The man who had flown north on our plane, with me and with Morgan and Anna Neville and the rest. The First Team, he thought proudly, the VIPs who had arrived from Washington on the Air Force Special Ops C-130. |
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What the hell was Karmann up to? And arriving so soon after Suslova. Here was a new angle, very suspicious. The two of them must have had a very strong reason to meet on the diving platform, the most dangerous place at Site X, and getting more so every minute it sits over that fucking missile. He had watched while Karmann argued softly with the watch, using his authority as the expert to overcome the man's reluctance, Ryerson realized. Then one of the dock guards had taken Karmann out to the diving platform on the Zodiac, left him there, and returned alone to the dock. |
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The platform was moored alongside the Trudeau, so perhaps Marina and Karmann had gone aboard the icebreaker. Doing what? Sabotaging the ship? It was due to leave at the same time the press plane left, to steam as far from the missile as was possible. Looks like two spies for the price of one, he thought ironically. Maybe Kellner and his boys are right, maybe the cold war isn't over. Ryerson shivered with cold and excitement, and his paper suit crackled loudly. A storya good storyalways affected him that way. It gripped his throat and his balls. Should he go now to tell that prick Morgan that the Russians were on the platform? He decided against leaving. Better stay and see when they come back, and where they go then. |
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He stomped his feet and waved his arms to keep warm. I'll never last, he thought despairingly. Even all this GI arctic wear isn't enough to keep out the cold. He inspected a large wooden crate on the ground between the tanks. It was empty. He pried at the board on the side toward him and found an opening |
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