At Oscar Papa Romeo. Request final clearance. Over." "This is Cube Six. Eye in the sky still shows you are clear for a twelve kilometer radius. No traffic within eighteen klicks. Proceed. I say again, proceed. Out." "Roger. Out." Prague pointed out the windshield and they ...
At 29,028 feet high, it is the highest and most inaccessible place on the surface of the planet. The perfect place to hide the key to the Master Guardian, which controlled all of the Airlia computers—the legendary sword of Arthur: Excalibur. The race to recover it had been...
"What about Tai?""Dead."That brought silence to the four people in the isolation area."How?" Hayes finally asked."Apparently some sort of parachute malfunction," Orson said. "The initial entry report wasn't specific." He shrugged. "Nothing changes. Vaughn can do the recon. The mission is still a ...
A storm was raging outside, with little sign of abating. Admiral Poldan hurried over. "What is it?" "I've got contact with Global Hawk. It's just cleared the shield." "Global Hawk? I thought it was down. Are you sure?" "Yes, sir." The admiral frowned. "What the hell's it been doing? It's nine hou...
They'd just found it, parked four hundred meters away from the base, and Major Min had directed him to destroy it. He estimated that thirty pounds of explosive would more than do the job. Kim pulled the fuse igniter and hopped out the door. He ran back to the SUSV and clambered into the cab, next...
The little light that made it this deep reflected off the smooth black stone. Dane knew the Navy had been all over this area, using all the scientific techniques they had to get an idea of the composition of the pyramid. And he had been briefed on the way over from the carrier that the black ston...
What exactly did you mean by that?” Dane had been waiting for that question and as he'd expected, Freed was the one to pose it. There'd been no time for it to be asked earlier. Since Dane had accepted the mission they had been busy, getting ready to depart and heading to the airfield. They were i...
The other members of the team were peering out the side closer to them, looking at the sprawling Australian outback. The low-lying dunes that stretched to the horizon were an off-red color with an occasional sprinkling of rocks. It reminded Hawkins, though on a far larger scale, of west Texas, wh...
It began accessing and opening other programs that had long rested dormant. Two programs had priority, one biological, the other mechanical. Even deeper than the computer under the surface of Mars was a cavern lined with rows of black, coffinlike objects, each just over te...
The bleeding from everywhere. Bleeding around the needle happens in some cases of severe viral infection. What's essential is we find out the transmission vector. For example, AIDS requires body fluid—blood or semen—contact. "Most deadly viruses are not easily transmitted....
SEALs worked best in small units anyway, and two was the smallest possible operating element, as the buddy system was an unbreakable code in water operations. Chief Petty Officers McGraw and Olivetti were the chosen ones. Both were highly qualified men with experience in c...
“We must stop by Thera,” Kaia announced as the ship slipped its moors in the port of Brundisium. “Why?” General Cassius asked. This was their first chance to really talk since leaving Rome. They had traveled the Via Brusdisii by horse, switching at every stage to new horses, escorted by a troop o...
Tek-Chong kept a black-and-white photograph taken by a KMT officer of his father's execution in his wallet. It showed him the moment before death, the muzzle of a pistol pressed against his right temple. The fortitude and proud stance of his father was something that Tek-Chong had always tried to...