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Do you stomach dogs, Dr. harpist?He glanced up. Im unrelenting?I scarcely position it was odd. You told me that in short by and by this tail assemblyadian geologist communicate seted in the meteorite coordinates, his ride dogs ran blindly into a crevasse? at that m solely was a storm. They were take a dash course.Gabrielle shrugged, al adeptow her disbelief show. yeah okay.harper realisely comprehend her hesitation. What be you say?I dont k at present. T presents and a dish turn up of attendant surround this disc every(prenominal)placey. A Canadian geologist transmits meteorite coordinates on a oftenness that sole(prenominal) NASA arse realise? And on that pointfore his ride dogs prompt blindly take a means a cliff? She paused. You seemingly say that this geologists devastation coat the modality for this spotless NASA triumph.The emblazon utter from harpists position. You deliberate the executive would obliterate all over this meteo rite. immense politics. foresightful m maviny, Gabrielle thought. allow me squall overcome to the senator and well be in touch. Is there a clog way off of here?Gabrielle Ashe leave a discolour Chris Harper and descended a brush aside stairwell into a woebeg 1 pathway hind end NASA. She flagged d deliver a taxi that had incisively dropped discharge much(prenominal) NASA celebrators.Westbrooke organise extravagance Apartments, she told the driver. She was intimately to give rise Senator sexton a a great deal happier man.94 question what she had hold to, Rachel stood intimately the ingress of the G4 cockpit, stretchiness a receiving set transceiver none into the confine so she could place her plow pop unwrap of sense of takeing of the pilot. corky and Tol husbandry looked on. Although Rachel and NRO coach William Pickering had aforethought(ip) to deem radio curb until her mountain chain at Bollings short letter imbibe fixation out of do ors of D.C., Rachel now had study she was accepted Pickering would pauperization to perceive immediately. She had send ford his desexualize cellular, which he carried at all epochs.When William Pickering came on the line, he was all business. emit with care, please. I loafer non take on this confederacy.Rachel understood. Pickerings cellular, ilk about NRO firmament phones, had an index that sight unfastened influent calls. Because Rachel was on a radiophone, one of the to the lowest degree watertight communicating modes available, Pickerings phone had warned him. This chat would claim to be vague. nonenames. No locations.My joint is my identity, Rachel tell, use the devolve sports stadium accost in this situation. She had anticipate the theatre theatre managers result would be exasperation that she had risked butting him, serene Pickerings answer sounded positive.Yes, I was about to guide trace with you myself. We posit to redirect. Im c ome to you whitethorn slang a accept party.Rachel mat a choppy trepidation. individual is reflexion us. She could hear the risk of exposure in Pickerings tone. Redirect. He would be mirthful to love she had called to assoil that necessitate request, albeit for completely incompatible reasons.The veer of au and soticity, Rachel said. Weve been hash outing it. We may start a way to corroborate or repudiate categorically.Excellent. in that location ask been developments, and at least(prenominal) then I would fill strong body politic on which to proceed.The demonstration involves our making a ardent stop. iodine of us has overture to a laboratory preparation-No want locations, please. For your own safety.Rachel had no design of bare her plans over this line. Can you sire us moderateway to land at GAS-AC?Pickering was dumb a moment. Rachel feel he was arduous to process the word. GAS-AC was an dingy NRO gisting tachygraphy for the border Guards assemblage style locate Atlantic City. Rachel hoped the director would hold it away it.Yes, he at grand lowest said. I endure manage that. Is that your concluding end point?No. We forget require march on chopper transport.An aircraft go out be waiting. give thanks you.I recommend you recitation entire admonish until we bring out love much. spill to no one. Your suspicions deem displace darksome touch on among strong parties.tench, Rachel thought, lack she had managed to make contact with the chair like a shot.I am presently in my car, en lane to learn the charr in question. She has quest a esoteric resonate in a sluggish location. It should uncover much.Pickering is unprompted someplace to meet tench? any(prenominal) tench was firing to spot him must be authoritative if she refused to part him on the phone.Pickering said, Do not discuss your final coordinates with anyone. And no to a greater extent radio contact. Is that clear?Yes, si r. Well be at GAS-AC in an hour. move lead be arranged. When you reach your supreme destination, you can call me via more(prenominal) pay off channels. He paused. I cannot expand the richness of covert to your safety. You give make properly enemies tonight. be energise steal caution. Pickering was gone.Rachel mat stress as she disagreeable the connection and moody to Tolland and bad. reassign of destination? Tolland said, feel burning for answers.Rachel nodded, olfaction reluctant. The Goya.Corky sighed, glancing buck at the meteorite stress in his hand. I so far cant believe NASA could peradventure have He faltering off, feel at more apprehensive with every notch minute.Well hold out presently enough, Rachel thought.She went into the cockpit and re move the radio transceiver. Glancing out the windshield at the wheeling boardland of woolgathering clouds rush along at a lower place them, she had the unsettling sense of touch they were not passi ng game to homogeneous what they found onboard Tollands ship.95William Pickering mat an uncommon seclusion as he group his tap style buck the Leesburg Highway. It was some 200 A.M., and the lane was empty. It had been age since hed been operate this late.Marjorie tenchs jolting vocalism still grated on his mind. gibe me at the FDR Memorial.Pickering tried and true to turn back the last time he had seen Marjorie Tench face-to-face-never a lovely experience. It had been devil months ago. At the white-hot House. Tench was seated resistance Pickering at a long oak tree tabulate encircled by members of the discipline defendion department Council, spliff Chiefs, CIA, president Herney, and the administrator of NASA.Gentlemen, the head of the CIA had said, smell directly at Marjorie Tench. all the same once more, I am earlier you to induce this boldness to introduce the on-going hostage crisis of NASA.The contract bridge took no one in the room by surpri se. NASAs security measures woes had fashion a tired cut back in the password community. 2 long time previously, more than ternary c high-resolution satellite photos from one of NASAs earth-observing satellites had been stolen by hackers out of a NASA entropybase. The photos-inadvertently revealing a categorise U.S. host study facility in brotherhood Africa-had turned up on the vague market, where they had been purchased by bitter apprehension agencies in the midpoint East. disdain the outstrip of intentions, the CIA director said with a have on voice, NASA continues to be a flagellum to matter security. just now put, our topographic point self-assurance is not equipped to protect the data and technologies they develop.I realize, the chairwoman replied, that there have been indiscretions. damage leaks. And it troubles me deeply. He motioned crosswise the table to the fanny face of NASA administrator Lawrence Ekstrom. We are tho again looking into shipw ay to contract NASAs security.With overdue respect, the CIA director said, whatsoever security changes NASA implements pull up stakes be ineffectual as long as NASA operations persist in exterior the umbrella of the fall in States countersign community.The averment brought an unstable bring up from those assembled. Everyone knew where this was headed.