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They have the scroll we took from the Vatican. We had no choice. The men holding the hostages dipped in and out of view between the trees. Han-Jae was yelling something at Baldwin. Hed moved over to within a few feet of the blond man, pointing his pistol straight at Baldwin’s forehead. He was yelling something, of which Sean was finally able to hear bits and pieces. The room was close to twenty feet wide, stretching from a dining nook on one side to a study on the other. It appeared to be a sitting room. An antique wooden coffee table sat in the center, with a beige cloth couch and two matching chairs on either side. A grandfather clock in the corner ticked loudly, the only sound in an otherwise perfectly silent room. Exactly. Thank You! This kitchen better have a knife. The Doctor nodded.Dont think I’ll turn in till they’ve gone. I’d rather like to see our desperadoes disappear into the night.’ Seans head twisted back and forth. I don’t understand. Since when did Pyongyang care about archaeology? If the destroyer tries to come in, if they are foolish enough to risk giving our torpedoes a target at point blank range…Yashimoto dismissed the idea with a contemptuous flourish of his hand. ‘…if they’re foolish enough to do that — then their upper deck, and the bridge especially, are to be raked with machine-gun fire as they steam down the narrows.’ TheCaptain was thoughtful. ‘Of course they may risk sending in a fast motorboat to reconnoitre — or even a whaler under sail.’ He peered at Kagumi with narrowed eyes. The whaler would be silent, difficult to see in the dark. Warn the sentries accordingly. We must take no chances. Any craft of any sort that enters is to be machine-gunned, and the sentries must not hesitate to use rocket flares to illuminate if there’s no moonlight. Stress the vital importance of giving us early warning with Very lights.’ The bartender smiled, revealing a crooked set of teeth underneath his black mustache. It was hard to tell which needed to be cleaned more, the teeth or the mirror. Yashimoto pursed his lips, exhaled, his eyes on the smoke ring climbing to the deckhead.Today is the twenty-first ofNovember. He spoke slowly, very deliberately, as if each word was being weighed. ‘We have been ordered to take up station outside Mombasa not later than midnight on the twenty-fifth. The carrier and its escorts are due on the twenty-sixth or twenty-seventh. Thejourney to Mombasa will take two days. To be on station in time we must leave here by midnight on the twenty-third. Can you get the work done by then, Chief?’ Yashimoto’s pouched eyes bore into the Engineer Officer, who held up his hands as if fending off an attack. You got an address for us? Allyson asked, almost rudely. I dont suppose you have any ideas on how to get out of this one? Tommy said in a hushed tone. Okay, Adriana Villa, she said quietly. Lead me to this painting.” He jumped up, slipped, but still holding the stanchion pulled himself to his feet and in the faint light of early morning stared in dismay at the distant blur of the conning-tower. It was only seconds since the klaxon had begun to sound but the sharp hiss of air from the vents as the ballast tanks flooded, the cessation of noise and vibration from the diesels as the electric motors took over, and the increasingly bows-down angle of I-357 brought home to him the reality of what was happening. Thats a bad thing, buddy, Sean said. When they don’t care if you see where they’re taking you, it means you’re not getting out alive.”.
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