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Godspeed and good luck.
Horace Gordon
Division Chief, Bureau 13
P.S.: Nice try, but this document will not photocopy.
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 Judgement Night: Bureau 13 Book 1
by Nick Pollotta




ACTIVATION


ONE


тАЬGot one!тАЭ Mindy Jennings shouted, pulling back on the rod
and reeling in the line, the ratchet whizzing away loudly.
Net in hand, Raul Horta crawled forward in the boat and
soon another rainbow trout was added to the growing
collection of edible prisoners in the old tin washtub in the
middle of the rowboat.
I watched the whole thing with an air of resignation. It had
been my idea for the team to come up here to the Catskill for
our vacation and everybody was catching the limit, but me.
Ah, what the hell. Didn't like fish. Not really. I was a meat-
and-potatoes kind of guy. Thank god there was a freezer full
of barbecued ribs waiting in the cabin.
Congratulations for the catch were tossed about from the
rest of my crew, and in a polite array of plonks, the lines hit
the water again in a neatly staged series.
Once more, the war twixt man and fish commenced. We
had been out on the lake for half the morning, doing it up
royal, each of us grimly determined to have fun. Mindy was in
the rear of the rowboat battling the fish for supremacy. Next
to her, Raul Horta was experimenting with some goofball
mail-order electric fish catcher. Damn things never worked,
but still he tried. Balancing the front of the boat, Father
Michael Xavier Donaher and I were just drinking beer,
swapping lies and occasionally summoning fat trout to their
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 Judgement Night: Bureau 13 Book 1
by Nick Pollotta