Oath of Fealty by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle

Author:Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle [Niven, Larry & Pournelle, Jerry]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Science Fiction, Fiction
Published: 2011-01-09T06:00:00+00:00

"You go on," Sherry said. Her meaty face glowed in the orange light, reflections off water, as if she'd just stepped out of a very hot shower. "I can't go any farther." "Get your ass up!" the leader shouted. "Put that mask back on!" "Go to hell!" Sherry said; but she said it from the floor. Gavin and Reese picked up her gear. The box was lighter now.

"That's two," Rand said with glee. This time! "A hundred eighty degrees in there. We'll get them all before it's over." And we'll get them alive, this time . . . He watched as the invaders moved across the screen, through fire doors, onward toward the central core of Todos Santos. "You can't let them get much farther along that way," Bonner's voice said. "Yeah~ I know that," Rand answered. "Hang on." Hell. When will the others drop? He looked up to Hamilton. "Captain, give 'em more knockout gas. Those masks can't be comfortable." "Yes, sir." The guard captain continued to stare at the screen. "All right," Tony said. "I guess it wouldn't hurt if you put some of your armed people down there in Tunnels 5 and 6, sort of parallel to these yo-yos. . Hamilton nodded eagerly, then began speaking orders into his headset microphone. "Bravo, go. Delta go." Now they took one more turn, stopped, then went unerringly to the TV camera. The screen blanked momentarily, then came on from another angle as Tony activated the alternate pickup. Damn, Tony muttered. Not much question about it now. "Art? Our mole is Alice Strahier. What do we do about her?" "Don't know yet. You sure?" "I mapped it. She knew about camera 2 in Tunnel 5. She didn't know about the radiants, and neither did the bandits, but she was supposed to enter a monitor program, and she didn't. And now they've knocked out a new camera she knew of, and didn't get one I never told her about. I've got another double check coming up, but it's her." "Your assistant." "Yeah. Art, she may not be guilty of anything but talking to the wrong person. She's a nice-" "Okay, I'll deal with Alice," Bonner said quickly. Yeah, Tony thought. But she never blabbed innocently, not in that much detail. Hell. Bonner's voice came on again. "Now just what are you going to do about those jokers down there? I hate to remind you, but they're getting close to the turbines and MHD systems." "And if they zap one of those, we've had it. Yeah, I got the picture," Rand said, "but is that what they're after? Last time it was start a big fire." "Uh-uh. Last time it was fake a big fire. Tony, it's the turbines. They don't really want to kill lots of people. Bad publicity. They want to make Todos Santos too expensive to run. Believe it, they're after the turbines." On screen, the bandits were still moving toward the turbines. They were slow, in a turtle's

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