"Clancy, Tom - Op-Center 05 - Ballance of Power" - читать интересную книгу автора (Clancy Tom)

She found it impossible to believe that Martha was
dead. She could still feel her annoyance, see her
eyes, smell her perfume. She could still hear
Martha saying.
You know what's at stake here.
Aideen swallowed hard and entered the number. She
asked to be connected with Darrell McCaskey's
room. She slipped a simple scrambler over the
mouthpiece, one that would send an ultrasonic
screech over the line, deafening any taps. A
filter on McCaskey's end would eliminate the
sound from his line.
Aideen did know what was at stake here. The fate
of Spain, of Europe, and possibly the world. And
whatever it took, she did not intend to come up short
again.
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ATX-UL1024 TWO
ATX-UL0 Monday, 12:12 p.m. Washington,
D.c.
When they were at Op-Center headquarters at
Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland or at
Striker's Base in the FBI Academy in
Quantico, Virginia, the two
forty-five-year-old men were Op-Center's
Deputy Director, General Michael Bernard
Rodgers, and Colonel Brett Van Buren
August, commander of Op-Center's
rapid-deployment force.
But here in Ma Ma Buddha, a small, divey
Szechuan restaurant in Washington's Chinatown,
the two men were not superior and subordinate. They were
close friends who had both been born at St.
Francis Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut;
who had met in kindergarten and shared a passion for
building model airplanes; who had played on the
same Thurston's Apparel Store Little League
team for five years-and chased home run queen
Laurette DelGuercio on the field and off; and
who had blown trumpet in the Housatonic
Valley Marching Band for four years. They
served in different branches of the military in
Vietnam-Rodgers in the U.s. Army
Special Forces, August in Air Force
Intelligence-and saw each other infrequently over
the next twenty years. Rodgers did
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two tours of Southeast Asia, after which he was sent
to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to help
Colonel "Chargin" Charlie" Beckwith oversee