Ahern, Jerry - Survivalist 01 by Total War

Author:Total War
Language: eng
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Chapter Twenty

"My wife? The children?"

"They are fine, Mr. President. We'll be perfectly safe here," Thurston Potter said, walking over to the president and sitting down on the easy chair opposite the couch where the president sat.

"Is everyone here at Mt. Lincoln?"

"Your Chief of Staff, Paul Dorian is here, sir. Mr. Thorpe is here."

Lieutenant Brightston is playing with your youngest son, running movies for him. Rear Admiral Corbin and his intelligence people made it."

"What about Secretary Meeker?" the president said.

"As best as we can determine, he was going to get his wife-we don't think he made it. Washington is all but gone. The vice-president, Mr. Sneed, didn't make it either, sir. They couldn't get him out of the hospital at Bethesda in time. The operation he was having was at the critical stage."

"My God, Meeker, Sneed! How many millions, Potter? Any estimate yet?"

Before Potter could answer, there was a knock at the door.

"Yes-come in," the president said, his voice high-pitched.

Rear Admiral Corbin stepped through the doorway. "Mr. President, I've got a preliminary situation report."

"What about casualties?" the president said, lighting a cigarette.

"Well, too early to tell, Mr. President. It looks like they made a massive launch, but with the exception of a few strategically important cities, primary concentration was on our military targets-not on population centers. Some reports from the Midwest indicate that neutron devices might have been used-so the real estate up that way should at least be somewhat salvageable."

"What sort of damage are we inflicting on them?"

"Major cities, major industrial complexes-but they got way too much of our stuff while it was on the ground. I think we lost this one, sir," Corbin concluded.

"This one?" the president said, and he realized he was smiling absurdly. Then, quietly, he said, "Admiral Corbin, don't you realize there isn't going to be another one?"

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