"Continuing Time - 01 - Emerald Eyes" - читать интересную книгу автора (Moran Daniel Keys)

governments to agree to this; both were in grave geopolitical troubles at the
time, caught between the vise of Japanese, Soviet, and American interests.
Brazil followed, and before the end of the year 2014, two thirds of the planet
acknowledged the United Nations as the EarthТs legitimate government.
Three notable holdouts were, of course, the United States and the Soviet Union
and Japan. Sarah Almundsen used tactical thermonuclear weapons and orbital
lasers and sliced the USSR into ribbons. The Soviets, whose citizens were in
open revolt after the second week of war with the United Nations, surrendered
after Moscow was vaporized, Japan never surrendered; although members of the new
government committed suicide after performing their duty, the United Nations did
explode more than a dozen thermonuclear warheads over Japanese territory until
the Japanese were no longer capable of resistance.
North America, specifically the United States, was a more delicate matter; the
United Nations offices were located there. Further, whole battalions of the U.S.
Armed Forces deserted to the United Nations in the earliest days of the
Unification War. Sarah Almundsen was an American, an honorable woman who was
known to keep her word; sentiment to deal with her ran strong in many parts of
the U.S.
The Sons of Liberty, a group of soldiers led by the President of the United
States, composed of large portions of the Armed Forces, with nearly all of the
Marine Corps, prevented that. The Unification War reached America in 2016 and
stretched into 2017, and then into 2018. Throughout the first half of 2018, the
Sons of Liberty fought a rearguard action as the better-equipped, better-fed,
better-supported United Nations Peace Keeping Forces swept them north and east,
across the Plains states and onto the Eastern seaboard. The Unification War,
after causing more casualties than any other war in American history, officially
ended in the summer of 2018 with the Treaty of New York, which detailed the
particulars of the surrender of the mightiest nation the Earth had ever known,
the United States of America.

The door slid aside at exactly ten a.m.
УWhat the fuck are you doing in my office?Ф
Suzanne Montignet was, Darryl Amnier thought in immediate surprise, an
astonishing beauty. The holos in her files did her not the faintest trace of
justice. Her blond hair was tucked up under a net that reminded him, strangely,
of the hair net the Sisters had worn at St. Margaret MaryТs, the Catholic school
heТd been taught at as a child. She stared at him, waiting for an answer. He
wondered at her anger; forty-five minutes ago it had undoubtedly been real. Now
it was simply a mask stamped across features that were, perhaps, slightly too
delicate. It seemed to Amnier that she was undernourished as well; she must have
lost five kilograms since the most recent holographs of her had been taken.
Darryl Amnier rose belatedly from behind MontignetТs desk, removed his hat, and
sketched a bow. УI am Monsieur Amnier, here for my appointment.Ф It was his best
French.
Suzanne Montignet looked him over as though he were something unpleasant sheТd
found in her salad, and shook her head in a tired motion. She dropped the pile
of folders sheТd entered with on her desktop. УLights,Ф she said in English. The
fluorescent lamps came up bright, and Darryl Amnier realized that the odd gray
of her eyes, which heТd assumed an error in her holo reproductions, was their
true color. УI know who you are. Do you usually pop into peopleТs offices two