Then he decided to let the flight director and autopilot take over, so he reached down to his right and pressed two push buttons labeled PITCH and LATERAL. The first thing he needed was a clearance, to set up part of the route to Johnston Island. He needed a lot of other things, too, including at...
He watched Gold stare at the floor. Sleep deprivation gummed his thoughts; he could not concentrate on any line of logic. He still heard aircraft engines thrumming overhead from time to time, but the plane might as well have flown in another dimension. Parson saw no way it could help him now. Not...
A night flight this time, but night and day hardly existed in the back end of the surveillance jet. No windows, just computers and monitoring gear. Gold imagined Parson found a much better view up front in the cockpit jump seat. The plane had taken off into a clear Balkan night with a glittering ...
One of those came during seventh grade when a flu bug put him down for two weeks. During that illness, strange and vivid dreams haunted his sleep. Lost in deep woods that formed a maze. Charged by a bull with steel horns. Attacked by a buzzard that wouldn’t let him alone until he picked up a dead...