Lord Regan said. “At once.” Charity sucked in her breath. Lord Regan was an overweight man with a receding hairline, who couldn’t be bothered to use a charm to freshen the air around him. Merely looking at him made her feel sick. Charity, who had known his daughter while s...
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Mistress Irene had been staying at City Hall and, by the looks of things had been wearing out the carpet by pacing back and forth while waiting for news of her missing charges. Judging from the comments Emily had overheard as they were escorted into the building, Mistress Irene been an unwelcome ...
Captain John Raines Johnson said, as the attack wing gathered to support the Lightning. “What do you think of that? “I don’t believe it,” Andrew said, shaking his head. If he hadn’t been on the priority list for any updated intelligence regarding the Killers, or their ...
Several people looked at him and headed away from him at speed, while a number of stalls promptly pulled down their shutters and closed for the day. Dacron would have found it depressing if he hadn’t had too much else to worry about; the weight of the books was making him stagger and yet he didn’...
Standard Federation doctrine, therefore, is to secure the planet’s capital city and industries, then maintain a reserve force in orbit to respond to any threatening events. The remainder of the planet is left to its own devices. -The Federation Navy in Retrospect, 4199 &nb...
The explosion seemed to destroy the entire city. As he drove along one of the roads set aside for government ministers and workers in the centre of Brussels, Colonel Seth Fanaroff yanked the car aside as other cars screeched to a halt or came to a stop, the drivers panicking as the centre of B...
Sandy said. She yawned before she could stop herself. “Get some rest, then we’ll report to Captain Goerlich. Independence will take us to Dawson.” She opened the hatch and stepped out into the passageway, thinking hard. They'd have to come up with a record that gave ...
The reason for that is quite simple. An admiral has command of a force that will, as a general rule, obey him without question, perhaps following orders that end with a coup and the destruction of the Federation Senate. The more powerful the fleet, the more intrusive Senate interference becomes, ...
Sergeant Mathew Bracken snorted as the SEALs instantly transformed themselves into the very picture of slobs and layabouts. Red Squadron of the Joint Special Operations Command's United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group was used to insane missions – they’d spearheaded the killing ...
Himmler thought with unintentional irony. The explanation, so vague as to be almost useless, wouldn’t have made sense to anyone, but at least it sounded encouraging. Himmler had had one of the Waffen-SS officers make a personal report from Das Reich to him, and that report had been much less enco...
Dr Rennet White said. “I understand that there have been some…concerns about you?” Nicolas Awad eyed her suspiciously. Rennet was a thirty-something woman who might have been attractive if she had lost some of the weight and perhaps three-quarters of the make-up. She ...
Her mother had never mentioned the concept, but there had been a little about blackmail in Edmund; A Butler’s Tale. It was simple – and evil. People had secrets, secrets they would pay to conceal... and if someone else happened to find those secrets, they could use them to force the victim to pay...