Dragon (1990) by Cussler Clive - Dirk Pitt 10

Author:Cussler, Clive - Dirk Pitt 10 [10, Cussler, Clive - Dirk Pitt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2010-12-20T02:01:46.937000+00:00

"Why not now?"

"You must be instructed of my goals first. Tomorrow I will personally conduct you and Congresswoman Smith on a tour of my Dragon Center and demonstrate the source of Japan's new might."

"A Dragon Center," repeated Diaz curiously. "For what purpose?"

"You don't know, Senator, about the nuclear bomb cars our host has spread around half the world?" Pitt asked provokingly.

Diaz was uncomprehending. "Bomb cars?"

"Suma, here, wants to play hardball with the big boys, so he's dreamed up a blue-ribbon extortion plot. As soon as his highly touted Dragon Center is completed, he can push a button and cause the detonation of a nuclear bomb at any location his robots park a car with a built-in bomb."

Loren's eyes went wide with shock. "Is this true? Japan has secretly built a nuclear arsenal?"

Pitt nodded at Suma. "Why don't you ask him?"

Suma stared at Pitt like a mongoose eyeing a cobra. "You're a very astute man, Mr. Pitt. I'm told it was you who put Mr. Jordan and his intelligence people onto our method of smuggling the warheads into your country."

"I freely admit that hiding them in automobile air-conditioning compressors was a cagey act of genius on your part. You almost got away with a clean operation, that is, until a bomb accidentally exploded aboard your auto transport ship."

Frowning, baffled, Loren asked, "What do you hope to gain?"

"Nothing deep and unfathomable," answered Suma. "Using your slang, Japan has always been on the short end of the stick. Raw universal anti-Japanese prejudice is deeply ingrained in the white West. We have been looked down on as an odd little Oriental race for three hundred years. The time has come to grasp the dominance we deserve!"

An angered flush crept into Loren's face. "So you'd launch a war that would slaughter millions of people for nothing but false pride and greed. Didn't you learn anything from the death and destruction you caused in the nineteen-forties?"

"Our leaders went to war only after the Western nations strangled us to death with trade embargoes and boycotts. What we lost then in lives and destruction, we've since surpassed in expansion of economic power. Now we are being threatened again by international ostracism and world enmity merely due to our diligent efforts and dedication to efficient trade and industry. And because our great economy is dependent on foreign oil and minerals, we can never again allow ourselves to be dictated to by Washington politics, European interests, or Middle East religious conflict. With the Kaiten Project we have the means to protect ourselves and our hard won economic gains."

"The Kaiten Project?" Diaz repeated, never having heard of it before.

"His sordid plan to blackmail the universe," Pitt explained caustically.

"You're flirting with fire," Loren said to Suma. "The United States, the Soviet Union, and Europe will band together to destroy you."

"They will back off when they see what it will cost them," Suma said confidently. "They'll do little but hold press conferences and declare they will solve the problem through diplomatic means."

"You don't give a damn about saving Japan!" snapped Diaz suddenly.

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