"Bolan, Mack - Stony Man 35 - Message To America" - читать интересную книгу автора (Bolan Mack)Man Farm command center. It was time to get the
show on the road. He spoke a few words into the minimicrophone hidden by the raised collar of his jacket, giving the green light to the other two mem- bers of the Phoenix team, Rafael Encizo and Calvin James. Then he lit up another of the toxic Russian cigarettes. Behind him, eighty yards farther down the dock, the 155-foot trawler, Varuskya Liset, rested at her moorings. A trio of short, burly men armed with So- viet assault rifles stood atop her gangway. They held their shoulder-slung AKS-74s down low but not com- pletely out of sight. They weren't protecting a cargo of Arctic cod with 5.45 mm automatic weapons. They guarded something more precious than gold, something every jumped-up, pot-metal, Third World president-for-life wanted. The power to inflict mega- death. When the Belomor was half-smoked, McCarter nodded to Manning and they picked up their satchels and started down the dock like a pair of well- lubricated sailors in no particular hurry to get back to work. Their zigzag route took them closer and closer to the Varuskya Liset--absolute ground zero. Stony Man Farm, Virginia 8:34 p.m. EDT AT THE SOUND OF THE BEEP, Aaron "the Bear" Kurtzman removed his mug from the computer lab's microwave oven. Steam snaked up from the cup, car- rying with it the bitter smell of feboiled coffee. He took a sip and made a face. He couldn't remember how many times he'd reheated it, but five dark brown rings around the inside of the cup's rim indicated re- cent lowerings of the waterline. Kurtzman dumped the undrinkable brew down the sink. There wasn't time to build a fresh pot of the black-as-tar, supercaffeinated java that he preferred, and that everyone else on the Stony Man Farm elec- tronic-Intel squad either doctored with milk and sugar--or avoided like the plague. He snatched a pair of blueberry danishes from the covered tray beside the microwave, figuring a sugar lift, though brief, was better than no lift at all. |
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