"William C. Dietz - By Force of Arms" - читать интересную книгу автора (Dietz William)

tic, listening to her lover breathe. He was asleep and had
been for an hour now.

The sex had been good, very good, but something was
missing. Was it her? Was it him? Or, and this was what
she feared most, was it theml

Something creaked—and her thoughts continued to
chum.

The hallway was long. wide and dimly lit. Huge pieces of
furniture and statuary lurked in the heavily anchored
gloom.

In spite of the fact that Earth's legally constituted gov-
ernment had been restored, and most of the mutineers had
been placed in prison, where they awaited military trials,
there were still plenty of renegades, outlaws, and psycho-
paths who would like nothing better than to assassinate
Legion General William "Bill" Booly III, who, along with
Admiral Angie Tyspin and a number of civilian resistance
groups was credited with winning the battle for Earth. That
being the case, Naa commandos, the best special ops
troops the Legion had to offer, were assigned to protect
him night and day.

Corporal Hardswim had served with Booly in Africa,
where the officer had not only managed to restore disci-
pline to the 13th DBLE, but had won a number of battles
against the mutineers, and led the famous raid on Johan-
nesburg. A raid the Naa had been part of—and had a
medal to prove it.



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The legionnaire grinned at the memory, looked down
the dimly lit hall, and turned to the window. It was a likely
point of entry and a way to break the boredom. There
wasn't much to see outside, just the moon, and the lights
of Sintra.

The assassins glided from one pool of shadow to the next,
careful to make no sound, weapons at the ready.

Each and every Naa was gifted with a supersensitive