Final Flight by Stephen Coonts

Author:Stephen Coonts [Coonts, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-307-75594-0
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 1988-10-15T16:00:00+00:00

Colonel Qazi and Yasim were eating lunch with the Italian workmen on the paint scow when Captain James began speaking on the PA system. The bosun’s pipe that preceded his remarks echoed through the hangar bay and was perfectly audible to the men on the scow. The workmen stopped talking to listen to the whistle of the pipe, but they ignored the captain since most of them didn’t speak English. Qazi, though, listened carefully as he chewed pickled olives and sipped a local red wine.

After lunch he spoke to the painting supervisor, who had one of his men start the engine in the boat moored alongside and take Qazi and Yasim ashore. The workmen would keep their mouths shut, at least for a few days, Qazi knew, because they had been well paid. By one of Pagliacci’s men. That fact was probably more important than the money.

As the boat carried them away from the ship, Qazi looked back. She was so huge he felt a moment’s unease. He could see the tails of the airplanes protruding over the edge of the flight deck and the top of the massive island with its arrays of antennas. In the catwalk on the port side he saw one of the fifty-caliber machine guns. The marine wore a helmet and was waving at them.

Qazi waved back.

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