The Second Angel (Ome) by Philip Kerr

Author:Philip Kerr [Kerr, Philip]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780752827933
Google: nsK6AAAACAAJ
Publisher: Orion Books Limited
Published: 1999-01-31T16:00:00+00:00

I'm not a poor man. Money's not the reason I'm doing this."

"Revenge?"

"What else?"

"So tell me what you'll need?"

Dallas had given the matter some considerable thought. They were going to need a spaceship, new identities and travel documentation, Clean Bill of Health certificates, life-support suits, a virtual reality suite on which they would test a model of the plan, a space fridge, food and water for at least three weeks, a telecommunications and detection screen, a Motion Parallax generator, electron-beam welding tools, lithium hydroxide CO^ collectors, piezoceramic vibration absorbers, infrared headsets, power spectacles, head top computers, an electric car, and, of course, transfusion facilities for those of his team who had the virus.

He thought of the various people he would need in his ideal team: a quantum cryptographer, an aeronautical engineer, a navigations and communications engineer, a computer engineer, an electric engineer, a virtual model-maker, and a mechanical engineer. He knew there was no way he would find half of them, and many of their vital skils would have to be acquired by his own team using artificial aids. This all passed through his mind in just the few seconds before he answered Kaplan's question.

"I'll tell you what I need most. I need a recent amputee," he said.

"That's right," he added, noting the puzzled look that appeared on Kaplan's wasted-looking face.

"I need a man who has recently lost an PART TWO

You must be prepared for a surprise, and a very great surprise. niels bohr m THIS WAS WHERE civilization had begun. And where it had ended first.

Orbiting Earth, the spaceship crossed the Red Sea in just twenty seconds. The blast craters that had once been the seaport of Jiddah and the holy city of Mecca appeared in the flight-deck window soon afterward. Years after the Great Middle Eastern War, the whole area from the Nile in Egypt to the Tigris in Iraq was still emitting harmful gamma rays, rendering this once fertile crescent uninhabitable for many decades to come.

They had left the planet only a couple of hours before after a rendezvous, at around fifty thousand feet, with one of the many fuel tanker planes that existed to sell spaceships the hundred tons of liquid helium necessary to help a spaceship blast its way into space.

Their orbit, at an altitude of one hundred and seventy miles and increasing, was fixed in space, but the world turns on its invisible axis by fifteen degrees every hour, so that their flight now took them south over the Indian Ocean. After leaving the coast of the Republic of Saudi Arabia, another fifteen minutes were to pass before they saw land again this time, Australia. Lenina had heard Dallas and Ronica talking about going to Australia, when they got back from the Moon. But she couldn't quite understand why. It didn't look like there was much down there.

Red, marbled with flecks of gray, blue, and white, the Great Sandy Desert looked like nothing so much as a section of human tissue. The northern coast, appearing

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