04 Fallout by David Michaels

Author:David Michaels [Michaels, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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LABRADOR SEA

THE Osprey bucked to one side, rain slashing the fuselage. Fisher tightened his seat belt and gripped the armrests a little tighter. Into his headset microphone he said, “How’re we looking, guys?”

“Not good,” Sandy replied.

In the background, Fisher could hear Bird muttering to himself, which he did during only the most perilous of situations. “Come on, sweetie, don’t be like that … Ah, now, that’s not nice …”

Sandy said to Fisher, “You hear?”

“I hear.”

Since leaving St. John’s, Newfoundland, with every mile northward the weather had deteriorated, until finally eighty miles south of the Site 17 platform, the Osprey was being battered by sixty miles per hour gusts and horizontal rain. Ten thousand feet below them, the ocean was roiling with fifteen-foot waves.

“Can you get me there?” Fisher asked.

Bird answered: “Hell, yes, I can get you there. Getting there ain’t the problem. The problem is, getting Lulu here to sit still in the crosswind long enough for you to fast-rope to the deck. Odds are, you’d get bashed to a pulp on the cranes and derricks as soon as you went out the darn door.”

“In that case, how about we call that plan B,” Fisher said.

“Suits me. We aborting?”

“Nope,” Fisher said. “New plan A.”

“Which is?”

“If we can’t come in from the top, we’ll come in from the bottom.”

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