"Clancy, Tom - Net Force 02 - Hidden Agendas" - читать интересную книгу автора (Clancy Tom)

Martin H. Greenberg, Larry Segriff,
Denise Little, John Heifers, Robert
Youdelman, Esq." Richard Heller, Esq."
and Tom Mallon, Esq.; Mitchell Rubenstein
and Laurie Silvers at BIG Entertainment; the
wonderful people at Penguin Putnam Inc., including
Phyllis Grann, David Shanks, and Tom
Colgan; our producers on the ABC
mini-series, Gil Cates and Dennis Doty; the
brilliant screenwriter and director Rob
Licbcnnan; and all the good people at ABC. As
always, we would like to thank Robert Gottlieb of the
William Morris Agency, our agent and friend,
without whom this book would never have been conceived, as well
as Jerry Katzman, Vice Chairman of the
William Morris Agency, and his
television colleagues. But most important, it
is for you, our readers, to determine how successful
our collective endeavor has been.
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in
insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but
without understanding."
--Louis Brandeis
"Nothing is secret that shall not be made
manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and
come abroad."
comLuke, 8:17
PART01.
A Little Knowledge
PROLOGUE.
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010, 2:44
a.m. Baton Rouge, Louisiana
A cold and damp winter wind played around the
windows of the building, a breeze not strong enough
to rattle the still pristine thermopane glass, but
potent enough to tweak an occasional whistle from an
art-deco protrusion, whistles that now and then came
low enough to sound almost like moans.
Alone inside, the night watchman--watchwoman
in this case--pored over the laptop on the guard
station's desk, adding a few personal
notes to the text of Professor Jenkins's long
and incredibly boring lecture on the strata of
rock formations in southern New Zealand. The
lecture was from his auditorium-sized class
Introduction to Geology, her final science
requirement, and she'd put it off as long as she
could, but graduation was fast approaching and there was no
way around it. She would have taken Astronomy,
supposedly a walk, but the classes had been