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ROBERT DOHERTY

AREA 51
THE SPHINX


DEATH THREAT

"We're listening," Duncan said.
The voice that echoed out in response was low-pitched, somewhere between male
and female. "We have been patient, but time is running out. We want the key."
"The key to the lower level Qian-Ling?" Duncan asked.
 "Don't play games with me," Lexina said. "I have shown you just a small
sample of what I can do by destroying the place you held my comrades' bodies and
your last manned space vehicle. I now control the talon and I will do much worse
if you do not turn the key over to us."
"You killed a lot of people," Duncan said.
"And I will kill many, many more if you do not get me the key."
"Did you destroy the Columbia as it approaches the talon?" Duncan asked.
"No. That was the talon's automatic defense system reacting to anything that
came close. But I control it now. I control your satellite through the talon. I
warned you," Lexina said. "You ignored the warning. Do not ignore this one. Give
us the key."
"Why should тАФ" Duncan began but she was interrupted.
"Give us the key or we will destroy your country completely."

THE PAST

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PROLOGUE

THE GIZA PLATEAU
May 27, 1855

The face of the Sphinx gazed enigmatically over the sand, the weathered and
battered stone bathed in the rays the rising moon. The two men approaching the
statue halted, dwarfed by the large stone sculpture towering over them, their
feet sinking into the desert. Beyond the shoulders of the Sphinx, the missive
bulk of the three Giza pyramids filled the western horizon.
тАЬAbul-Hol,тАЭ one of the men said in Arabic, the words coming from inside
the deep folds of the hood he had pulled over his head. тАЬThe Father of Terror,тАЭ
he repeated in English.
The head of the statue was twenty feet wide and almost the same in
height. The neck and shoulders disappeared into sand that swept like an ocean
around it.
тАЬImpressive.тАЭ The other man spoke Arabic also, but with an accent that
indicated it was not his native tongue.
тАЬThe body is even more impressive,тАЭ the Arab said. тАЬIt has been buried
for many, many years.тАЭ