"Terry Dowling - Flashmen" - читать интересную книгу автора (Dowling Terry)

had arrived. тАЬHadnтАЩt heard.тАЭ

Sam didnтАЩt need to look back. Walt would be giving that look.

тАЬHave to know if itтАЩs something local or a new arrival,тАЭ Sunny added,
hardly necessary but these were new days. Maybe Sunny was worried that
Sam would ask him to pull over and let him out. тАЬCouldnтАЩt risk it back in the
Automatic. World Health wants known teams. Two of the best.тАЭ

The World Health Organization in full stride again. The WHO doctors!

тАЬHow bad?тАЭ Sam asked, remembering how the original Sailmaker had
started, how it had changed everything, destroyed so many crews,
discouraged the rest.

тАЬNowhere near mature, but theyтАЩve tracked fourteen towns to date,
half in Europe, rest in Asia. None in the Americas this time. Another six are
possible, but overlaps are still making it hard to tell.тАЭ

тАЬStats?тАЭ
 тАЬLast posting for the fourteen: two hundred and forty thousand people
down. Recovery teams got to the European sites, but you know how Asia
can be.тАЭ

Used to know, Sam almost said, ready with attitude. But kept it back.
Nothing ever really changes, considering.

тАЬHow far from the original?тАЭ he asked, thinking of The Sailmaker out
there in the hot desert on the edge of the Amadeus Basin, so far away.

тАЬRight near Dancing Doris. Sixty ks outside Broken Hill.тАЭ

тАЬItтАЩll all depend on our pure!тАЭ Sam said, stating the obvious, the too
obvious, but giving them the old Sam Aitchander standard. Part of him, too
big a part of him really, suddenly wanted things as they were back then.
Known.

They let it be. He let it be. They drove the rest of the way to the
Bendigo Gate in silence. Another time it would have been companionable
and welcome. Now there was too much fear.

A Sailmaker almost at the perimeter, Sam thought. TheyтАЩre closing
in.

****

TaggerтАЩs was on the very edge of the Krackenslough, that glinting landflow
from the only Landing phenomenon, globally, ever to involve striking back at
civilization from inside a Landing perimeter with large-scale coarse action
above and beyond the shut-down fugues. There was that single calamitous