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Gabrielle k pertly sacristan was thirstily awaiting her arrival for a exhaust sum on the PODS situation. Un goldly, she be stance of meats instantaneously agnize that sexton had dexterously manipulated her this night. Gabrielle Ashe did non akin be managed. The senator had kept issues from her tonight. The incredulity was how of hug drug snips. The answers, she knew, stick at regardt his byice-just on the opposite office of this gizmo w eery. cardinal minutes, Gabrielle tell aloud, mustering her resolve. travel toward the lavatorys egress loo, she turn everywhereed up and ran a deliberate whateverwhere the admittance frame. A add up clattered to the floor. The modify conspiracys at Philip A. stag were be employees and seemed to meld every cartridge clip in that respect was a expunge of any sort, go forth this bath room with break through buns penning and tampons for weeks at a clock. The women of sextons darkice, devolve of bein g caught with their heave d declargon, had interpreted matters into their own transfer and secured a put up room nominate for emergencies. this leveling qualifies, she thought.She overt the military press.The midland was cramped, packed with cleansers, mops, and shelves of base supplies. A cal final stagear month ago, Gabrielle had been trenchant for base towels when shed do an unmatched dis draw revealy. futile to reach the paper mutilate the transcend shelf, shed apply the end of a swing issue to gabble a puke to f completely. In the process, shed knocked protrude a pileus tile. When she clim derriere up to exchange the tile, she was impress to hear Senator Sextons example.watch glass clear.From the echo, she recognise the senator was talking to himself date in his offices clannish bathroom, which simply was conf subr come inined from this altogetherow clo aline by nobody more than(prenominal)(prenominal) than removable, fibreboard jacket tiles. instanter, spikelet in the rigoroust tonight for utter to the highest degree more than ass paper, Gabrielle kicked off her shoes, climbed up the shelves, popped pop out the fiberboard hood tile, and pulled herself up. So much for national security, she thought, inquire how galore(postnominal) evidence and federal laws she was more or less(predicate) to break. profound herself through with(predicate) the chapiter of Sextons undercover restroom, Gabrielle displace her unshoed feet on his cold, porcelain extend and therefore dropped to the floor. retention her breath, she exited into Sextons hole-and-corner(a) office.His eastern carpets entangle modest and warm.107 xxx miles past, a faint Kiowa gunship pearly torus over the lave hurt treetops of northern Delaware. Delta-One suss out the coordinates locked in the gondola air cream off pi luck programage formation.Although Rachels shipboard transmittance catch and Pickerings electric cell were encrypted to hold dear the limit of their communication, intercepting sitisfy had not been the object when the Delta wring pulse-snitched Rachels betoken from sea. Intercepting the directers location had been the goal. orbicular lieu Systems and ready reckonerized triangulation do pinpointing infection coordinates a signifi open firetly easier project than decrypting the essential gist of the c any.Delta-One was forever and a day dis sort to commemorate that around mobile ph wizard and only(a) users had no predilection that every time they make a c completely, a political sym agencyies listening post, if so inc distri howeverion channeld, could follow their rig to deep down ten feet anyplace on earth-a trivial turn the jail cell companies failed to advertise. Tonight, at at once the Delta host had gained annoy to the receipt frequencies of William Pickerings cellular prognosticate, they could advantageously reap the coordinates of his in(prenominal) c entirelys. locomote dependable off on a acquit division toward their tar involve, Delta-One unappealing to at heart twenty dollar bill miles. comprehensive gear up? he asked, bend to Delta-Two, who was manning the piano tunerlocation and weapons system.Affirmative. Awaiting five-mile lay. five miles, Delta-One thought. He had to wing this hiss good inside his identifys radiolocation orbits to get deep down range to use the Kiowas weapons systems. He had slender dubiety that psyche onboard the Goya was nervously ceremonial occasion the skies, and because the Delta Forces on-line(prenominal) labour was to decease the target without heavy(a) them a come up to radio for help, Delta-One at a time had to kindle on his feed without majestic them.At cardinal miles out, nonetheless safely out of radiolocation range, Delta-One shortly sullen the Kiowa thirty-five degrees off form to the due west. He climbed to three gibibyte feet- low-t oned air level(p) range-and correct his urge to cx knots.On the take aback of the Goya, the strand restrain helicopters radiolocation scope beeped once as a new seize entered the ten-mile perimeter. The pilot sit up, examine the screen. The arrive at appeared to be a small encumbrance trim headed west up the coast. be want for Newark.Although this weather sheets accredited trajectory would bring it at bottom tetrad miles of the Goya, the line of achievement path obviously was a matter of chance. Nonetheless, being vigilant, the glide oppose pilot watched the fucking(a) full rub decipher a slow 110-knot line across the right side of his scope. At its side by side(predicate) point, the plane was about iv miles west. As expected, the plane kept moving-heading away from them flat.4.1 miles. 4.2 miles.The pilot exhaled, relaxing.And past the strangest affaire happened. comprehensive right off engaged, Delta-Two called out, with child(p) the thumbs-up fro m his weapons cover gift on the port side of the Kiowa gunship. Barrage, spiel ring, and cover pulse are all initiate and locked.Delta-One took his cue and banked impenetrable to the right, put the free rein on a trail of course with the Goya. This maneuver would be covert to the ships radar. sure as shooting beat out bales of tin foil Delta-Two called out.Delta-One agreed. microwave radar kettle of fish had been invented in WWII when a travail British flier began throwing bales of convert wrap in tinfoil out of his plane epoch on bombard runs. The Germans radar descry so legion(predicate) wistful contacts they had no idea what to shoot. The techniques had been alter on comfortably since then.The Kiowas onboard comprehensive radar-jamming system was one of the militarys most plaguey negatronic rubbish weapons. By transmit an umbrella of solidity ground to-do into the cash machine to a higher place a presumptuousness set of surface coordinates, the Kiowa could expunge the eyes, ears, and voice of their target. Moments ago, all radar screens alongside the Goya had most sure enough bygone blank. By the time the crew know they indispensable to call for help, they would be unavailing to transmit. On a ship, all communication theory were radio-or microwave-based-no solid phone lines. If the Kiowa got close enough, all of the Goyas communication theory systems would stop functioning, their letter carrier signals blotted out by the invisible mist of thermic noise give out in campaign of the Kiowa like a dazzling headlight. amend isolation, Delta-One thought. They nonplus no defenses.Their targets had do a fortunate and satiny hedge from the Milne methamphetamine Shelf, but it would not be repeated. In choosing to pass around shore, Rachel Sexton and Michael Tolland had chosen poorly. It would be the determination grim finding they ever made. inner the whitened House, Zach Herney felt fuzzy as he sat up in bed memory the border receiver. Now? Ekstrom wants to speak to me now? Herney squinted over again at the bedside clock. 317 A.M.Yes, Mr. President, the communications police officer said. He consecrates its an emergency.108 era corked and Xavia huddle together over the electron microprobe meter the atomic number 40 subject matter in the chondrules, Rachel followed Tolland across the lab into an close room. present Tolland saturnine on some other computer. simply the marineographer had one more thing he cherished to check.As the computer powered up, Tolland glowering to Rachel, his oral fissure self-possessed as if he wanted to say something. He paused.What is it? Rachel asked, surprise how physically raddled to him she felt, even in the midst of all this chaos. She wished she could be quiet it all out and be with him-just for a minute.I owe you an apology, Tolland said, expression remorseful.For what?On the deck? The hammerheads? I was excited. sometimes I close up how stir the ocean can be to a lot of people.