The Destroyer - 10 - The Destroyer 010 - Terror Squad by Warren Murphy & Richard Sapir

Author:Warren Murphy & Richard Sapir [Murphy, Warren & Sapir, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Pulp Action
ISBN: 0-523-41225-8
Publisher: PINNACLE BOOKS
Published: 2010-03-19T14:52:44+00:00

ELEVEN

Dr. Harold Smith sat before the console of the computer outlet in Folcroft Sanitarium, a vast estate on the Long Island Sound, whose employees thought it to be a research center-all the employees but one. That employee-Dr. Smith-could, by pressing bis computer keys, pull from its memory banks information on all types of crime, domestic and international, that could threaten the United States. With a telephone call, he could place into the field hundreds of agents to gather information for CURE, an organization they did not know existed.

Now, as Smith sat before his console, he did not know what button to press or whom to call. He was bothered. Was he all right? Yesterday, he had thrown an ashtray at a secretary. And every call from Remo asked if he were all right. Today Remo had questioned him about the advisability of sending in other personnel to Patton.

"Why the hell couldn't you wait, Smitty? What's wrong with you?"

Well, he couldn't wait. The world was ready to take another major step toward peace with the signing of the antiterrorist pact, and any more terrorist action could shatter that peace. Dr. Smith had an obligation to everything he ever learned, everything he ever loved, to make sure that peace happened.

"I'll decide that, Remo," he had said. "I am feeling perfectly fine."

And then Remo had told him the riddle. It came from Chiun, who often spoke in riddles, but did this riddle really have a meaning? A typhoon is silent when another typhoon passes? What did that mean?

A buzzer sounded in Smith's desk. Smith removed the special phone from the top drawer and slumped back into his soft rocking seat.

"Yes sir," he said.

"Are congratulations in order?" the familiar voice asked,

"For what, Mister President?"

"Didn't your special man get to the headquarters of those terrorists?"

"Yes sir, he did. But we may not have eliminated the cause. We may just be in a dormant period with the terrorists."

"What do you mean?"

"I am told there will be no terrorist activity because . . . because one typhoon is silent when another passes."

There was a pause on the end of the line, then: "I don't understand that."

"Neither do I, sir. But it comes from one of our men familiar with this sort of thing."

"Hmmm. Well, at any rate, we have a hiatus?"

"Yes sir. I believe so."

"Good. I'll pass that on to our negotiator. Only four more days till the antiterrorist conference at the U.N. With luck, it'll be an in-and-out kind of thing. Sort of wham, bam, thank you, ma'am, and the world's airways are safe again."

"Yes sir," said Smith, annoyed at the allusion to sex. He had thought this President was above that sort of thing. Still, the President had great pressures on him in his quest for peace. Dr. Harold Smith must take a personal hand to make sure that nothing happened to foil that quest.

On a United States destroyer off the Atlantic coast, Colonel Anderson was greeted with congratulations by Colonel Huang and Colonel Petrovich.

Anderson

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