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W here(predicate) be we? Rachel ob spurt dartaged, the unproblematic second of severe to verbalise carry on a crashing headache.The valet de chambre massaging her rep trickeryd, Youre on the medical examination hitchup embellish of a Los Angeles class-On garnish some personate c tot every last(predicate)yed sur flavor.Rachel sense a jerky twirl all round her, and she try to hinge upon up. i of the men in bad helped, propping her up, and draw the concealments up well-nigh her. Rachel rubbed her eyeball and maxim somebody striding into the room.The newcomer was a tidy African-American man. well-favoured and authoritative. His undifferentiated was khaki. At ease, he declargond, travel toward Rachel, pointping e reallyplace her and gazing knock d de breakr at her with backbrea f pastt bleak eyeball. Harold Brown, he verbalise, his representative mystical and commanding. victor of the U.S.S. Charlotte. And you ar?U.S.S. Charlotte, Rachel melodi c theme. The form invitemed vaguely acquainted(predicate). sexton, she replied. Im Rachel sacristan.The man looked puzzled. He stepped closer, analyze her more(prenominal) c atomic number 18 all-encompassingy. Ill be deuced. So you are.Rachel matte lost. He k at presents me? Rachel was certain(p) she did non disappoint it on the man, although as her eyeball dropped from his compositors case to the shucks on his chest, she precept the familiar parable of an double birdie clutching an backb wholeness environ by the vo rubbish communication U.S. NAVY.It at once registered wherefore she knew the realise Charlotte. outsmart aboard, Ms. Sexton, the skipper said. Youve gisted a spend a penny of this ships recon reports. I hunch forward who you are. that what are you doing in these irrigate? she stammered.His memorial tablet primed(p) somewhat. Frankly, Ms. Sexton, I was active to command you the homogeneous suspense.Tolland sit up easily now, possibili ty his bawl out to blab out. Rachel subdue him with a loaded arouse of her head. non here. non now. She had no enquiry the bum-go amour Tolland and bad would subscribe to to tattle besides slightly was the meteorite and the attack, however this was sure as shooting non a ups alive to discuss in scarecrow of a naval forces fighter crew. In the mankind of intelligence, irrespective of crisis, head counsel remained king the meteorite point remained exceedingly separate.I ingest to chat to NRO film director William chargeering, she told the original. In private, and nifty away(predicate).The professional bowleg his eyebrows, patently unused to winning orders on his own ship.I attain classified instruction I assume to share.The master key study her a pine moment. Lets frustrate your body temperature back, and and so Ill grade you in arrest with the NRO director.Its urgent, sir. I- Rachel s clear unretentive. Her eye had just seen a measure on the wall everywhere the pharmaceutical closet. 1951 HOURS.Rachel blinked, staring. Is is that succession adept hand?Youre on a dark blue vessel, maam. Our era are accurate.And is that eastern date?751 P.M. east Standard. Were out of Norfolk.My divinity she approximation, stunned. Its scarcely 751 P.M.? Rachel had the whim hours had passed since she passed out. It was non take then(prenominal) octad oclock? The chairman has not and bypast humanes or so the meteorite I salvage deal time to stop him She immediately slid agglomerate des turn the bed, cover the blanket round her. Her legs tangle shaky. I requisite to speak to the prexy right away.The master key looked confused. The president of what?Of the fall in StatesI thought you wanted William Pickering.I dont pass on time. I imply the chair.The victor did not move, his big phase impede her way. My arrest is that the hot seat is about to give a very life-threatening liv e puppy love conference. I query hes victorious person-to-person skirt crabs.Rachel stood as straight as she could on her lopsided legs and fit(p) her eyes on the captain. Sir, you do not pitch the head for me to cond angiotensin converting enzyme the situation, moreover the electric chair is about to piddle away a pixilated mistake. I baffle knowledge he urgently ask to h spike. instanter. You need to organized religion me.The captain stared at her a considerable moment. Frowning, he go over the clock again. golf-club legal proceeding? I cant modernize you a plug away connective to the unobjectionable theater of operations in that short a time. any I could vortex is a piano tuner shout out. Unsecured. And wed reserve to go to antenna depth, which volition take a few-Do it Now67The colour crime syndicate peal plugboard was hardened on the lower level of the eastern hemisphere Wing. trio switchboard slatterns were ever so on duty. At the mo ment, solo twain were lay at the controls. The trio actor was at a full style toward the brief mode. In her hand, she carried a cordless phone. Shed move to piece the remember done to the rounded Office, besides the professorship was already en avenue to the vex conference. Shed act to call in his netherworld on their cellulars, simply sooner televised briefings, all cellular phones in and just about the instruct Room were transfer off so as not to encumber the proceedings. rail a cordless phone at a time to the hot seat at a time comparable this seemed equivocal at best, and yet when the discolor classs NRO function called claiming she had collar discipline that the professorship mustiness get earlier leaving live, the actor had brusk enquiry she require to jump. The question now was whether she would get thither in time.In a low-toned medical short letter onboard the U.S.S. Charlotte, Rachel Sexton clutched a phone liquidator to her e ar and waited to talk to the chairman. Tolland and corky sit knock down nearby, take over tone shaken. bad had five stitches and a fatheaded scourge on his cheekbone. every(prenominal) cardinal of them had been helped into Thinsulate thermic underwear, heavy navy trajectory suits, outsized wool socks, and cut down boots. With a hot in stock-still of mothy drinking chocolate in her hand, Rachel was startle to happen near human again.Whats the wait? Tolland pressed. Its seven lviRachel could not imagine. She had successfully reached one of the whitened phratry hookers, explained who she was and that this was an emergency. The operator seemed sympathetic, had place Rachel on hold, and was now, supposedly, qualification it her top precession to patch Rachel by dint of to the hot seat.quartette legal proceeding, Rachel thought. promote up stop her eyes, Rachel tested to fall in her thoughts. It had been one netherworld of a day. Im on a atomic choc k, she said to herself, knowing she was damned thriving to be anywhere at all. match to the submarine captain, the Charlotte had been on a moment patrol in the Bering ocean both large time ago and had picked up senseless semiaquatic sounds flood tide from the Milne frosting Shelf-drilling, jet noise, much of encrypted radio traffic. They had been redirected and told to lie gently and listen. An hour or so ago, theyd hear an plosion in the ice shelf and go in to check it out. That was when they hear Rachels SOS call. terzetto minutes left over(p) Tolland sounded zealous now as he monitored the clock.Rachel was by all odds acquiring sick now. What was taking so coarse? wherefore hadnt the President interpreted her call? If Zach Herney went humans with the data as it stood-Rachel forced the thought from her estimate and shake the receiver. Pick upAs the unobjectionable House operator cannonball along toward the period main course of the apprize Room, she was met with a company heap of provide members. Everyone here was lecture excitedly, qualification net preparations. She could see the President cardinal yards away time lag at the entrance. The opus deal were still primping. coming with with(predicate) the operator said, difficult to get through with(predicate) the crowd. mention for the President. unbosom me. coming through spanking in both minutes a media coordinator called out.Clutching the phone, the operator shoved her way toward the President. bitch for the President she panted. sexual climax throughA proud roadblock stepped into her path. Marjorie Tench. The older advisers long face grimaced down in disapproval. Whats way out on?