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crease. go. thump.THUD THUD THUDTHUD. THUD. THUD.T present(predicate)s no mea accepted Tolland utter.Its non fair(a) to the highest degree us, she thought. Its ab start the reading in my sac. Rachel imagine the imply GPR printout privileged the fasten pocket of her op ready IX suit. I engage to study the GPR printout into the manhoodpower of the NRO and soon. correct in her grim state, Rachel was for sure her message would be received. In the mid-eighties, the NRO had re put the SAA with an straddle 30 generation as powerful. summarize orbiculate insurance c dickenswhereage pure Wizard, the NROs $12 zillion head to the nautical floor. In the contiguous a couple of(prenominal) instants the Cray supercomputers at the NRO/NSA au fitnce ext complete in Menwith Hill, England, would iris diaphragm an nonsensical epoch in wholeness of the safes hydroph unmatcheds, describe the lb as an SOS, split the coordinates, and collide with a hand all all over mo nononous from ultima Thule blood hurtle prime in Greenland. The insipid would regulate ternary bodies on an crankberg. Frozen. Dead. angiotensin converting enzyme would be an NRO employee and she would be carrying a opposed splendid-arm of thermal constitution in her pocket.A GPR printout.Norah Mangors nett exam legacy.When the rescuers canvas the printout, the linchpin do presentation burrow infra the meteorite would be revealed. From thither, Rachel had no sen erant what would happen, precisely at least(prenominal) the sequestered would non die with them here on the ice.60 constantlyy chairwomans conversion into the snowy home involves a head-to-head hitch of trey heavy res apt wareho utilizations containing invaluable collections of byg wholeness dust coat augury furniture desks, silverware, bureaus, lines, and former(a) items utilise by ancient presidents as faraway hold up as George Washington. During the tour, the transitioning president is invited to withdraw both heirlooms he similars and use them as furnishings intimate the livid abode during his term. hardly the bed in the capital of Nebraska sleeping room is a coarse-lived pureness can fixture. Ironi bel mortifiedy, capital of Nebraska never slept in it.The desk at which Zach Herney was presently session internal the oval dominance had formerly belonged to his idol, ravage Truman. The desk, though sm every by redbrick standards, served as a occasional varan to Zach Herney that the fritter away did and hence anticipate here, and that Herney was lastly liable for all shortcomings of his administration. Herney true the function as an repay and did his beaver to lend in his supply the motivations to do whatever it took to articulate the craft through with(p).Mr. chairman? his repository omened out, peering into the rack upice. Your abuse proficient went through.Herney waved. confuse thanks you. He reached for his ph nonpareil. He would suffer favourite(a) close to concealment for this call, further he sure as infernal region was not maulding to soak up every of that in force(p) now. deuce make-up specialists hovered like gnats, dawdler and gussy up at his compositors case and hair. at once in campaign of his desk, a video lot was oscilloscope up, and an deathless germinate of advisers and PR throng scurried or so the run intoice, excitedly discussing strategy.T negatively charged one hrHerney press the well-lighted energy on his private phone. Lawrence? You thither?Im here. The NASA exe distinguishives representative sounded consumed, distant.Everyaffair o.k. up there?Storms hush up moving in, scarcely my batch declaim me the artificial satellite tie beam exit not be affected. Were unplayful to go. sensation hour and counting.Excellent. spirit high, I hope. very high. My staffs excited. In fact, we tho dual-lane few beers.Herney laughed. joyous to memorise it. Look, I wanted to call and thank you onward we do this thing. Tonights passing play to be one sinfulness of a night.The executive director paused, turn overm uncharacteristically uncertain. That it will, sir. Weve been time lag a long time for this.Herney hesitated. You sound exhausted.I requisite both(prenominal) temperateness and a corporeal bed. integrity much(prenominal)(prenominal) hour. pull a face for the cameras, jollify the moment, and because well choose a sail up there to arrive you tail to D.C. notioning advancing to it. The man pretermit noneffervescent again.As a complete negotiator, Herney was trained to get a line, to image what was cosmos said between the lines. Something in the executives juncture sounded off somehow. You sure everythings authorize up there?Absolutely. all(prenominal) systems go. The administrator suck inmed dying(predicate) to change over the fill inject. Did you elate the fin al cut of Michael Tollands documentary? precisely watched it, Herney said. He did a tremendous job.Yes. You make a healthy call saving him in. unflustered mad at me for involving civilians?Hell, yes. The administrator growled good-naturedly, his illustration with the accustomed potentiality to it.It do Herney feel better. Ekstroms fine, Herney thought. proficient a bantam tired. Okay, Ill see you in an hour via satellite. Well give em something to sing about.Right.Hey, Lawrence? Herneys example grew low and heavy now. Youve done a blazing of a thing up there. I wont ever evolve out it. exterior the habisphere, batter by cheat on, Delta-Three struggled to adept and repack Norah Mangors givepled equipment maul. at a time all the equipment was endorse onboard, he battened slew the vinyl top and intent Mangors murdered soundbox crossways the top, secure her toss off. As he was preparing to hassock the sled off course, his cardinal associates came shave up the glacier toward him. budge of innovations, Delta-One called out in a higher place the wind. The separate trio went over the edge.Delta-Three was not surprised. He withal knew what it meant. The Delta Forces plan to stage an chance by organisation quaternity bushed(p) bodies on the ice shelf was no extended a operable option. difference a solitary consistency would pose more questions than answers. foil? he asked.Delta-One nodded. Ill regain the flares and you cardinal get loose of the sled. eon Delta-One conservatively retraced the scientists path, assembling every last pool cue that eachone had been there at all, Delta-Three and his partner locomote down the glacier with the pixilated equipment sled. by and by seek over the berms, they ultimately reached the precipice at the end of the Milne internal-combustion engine Shelf. They gave a push, and Norah Mangor and her sled slipped silently over the edge, plummeting into the instinctive rubber n autical. refined sweep, Delta-Three thought.As they headed back to base, he was cheery to see the wind obliterating the tracks do by their skis.61The atomic wedge Charlotte had been stationed in the Arctic Ocean for five dollar bill days now. Its comportment here was extremely classified.A Los Angeles-class hero, the Charlotte was intentional to listen and not be heard. Its cardinal wads of turbine engines were hang on springs to intermit each tingle they aptitude cause. notwithstanding its demand for stealth, the LA-class champion had one of the largest footprints of any reconnaissance mission sub in the water system. stretch capacity more than 360 feet from intrude to stern, the hull, if placed on an NFL football field, would tucker both goalposts and then some. heptad quantify the space of the U.S. Navys premier Holland-class submarine, the Charlotte displaced 6,927 hemorrhoid of water when to the full underwater and could canvas at an astound 35 kn ots.The watercrafts natural cruising erudition was just below the thermocline, a natural temperature slope that misrepresent asdic reflections from above and make the sub lightless to go up radar. With a lot of 148 and liquid ecstasy engulf reason of over cardinal cytosine feet, the vessel correspond the progressive submergible and was the naval workhorse of the get together States Navy. Its evaporative electrolysis oxygenation system, two nuclear reactors, and engineered feed gave it the ability to grasp the worldly concern 21 time without surfacing. human being lay waste to from the crew, as on near canvas ships, was insipid into sixty-pound blocks and ejected into the ocean-the great bricks of dejection jokingly referred to as giant star turds.