Griffin, W.E.B. - Honor 03 - Secret Honor by Griffin W. E. B

Author:Griffin, W. E. B.
Language: eng
Format: epub

Ashton," Clete said.

"Then your judgment is fatally flawed! Goddamn you!

Didn't you consider the risk you were taking?"

Clete didn't reply.

"Let me explain, since your stupidity is of such monumental proportions that you may not even know: First of all, you arrogant pup, you're not qualified to fly that airplane. You're a fighter pilot, not a multiengine transport aircraft pilot."

"Sir, I flew the Lodestar from Braz—"

"Close your mouth!" Graham interrupted furiously. He paused a moment, as if considering what he wanted to say.

"OK. My fault. I should have pulled you up short when that happened. That was a stupid thing for you to do. Really stupid.

A combination, I suppose, of Marine Corps fighter pilot arrogance and this Jack Armstrong complex you have. What you should have done was get word to me you had never been inside a Lodestar. I could have had a qualified pilot there in forty-eight hours. Or you could have asked the Marine Corps pilot you got to give you—what, four hours instruction?—to fly it. But you got away with it, you got Ashton and the radar into Argentina, and because I didn't

think you would be so stupid as to go on flying the Lockheed without getting fully checked out in it, and certainly not by yourself, without a copilot, I said nothing. Major error in my judgment."

He stopped, and collected his thoughts again.

"Did it even occur to you what would happen if you crashed that airplane? And I'm not speaking of killing Ashton, your fiancee, your uncle, and your sisters—"

"Colonel, if I had thought there was any danger—"

"Goddamn you, shut your mouth until I give you permission to open it!"

He paused, visibly getting his temper under control, before going on.

"For one thing, that would have given the Bureau of Security all they needed to come on your estancia and grab the radar and Ashton's team. Two weeks after that, another German freighter would be anchored in Samborombon Bay refueling German submarines.

"For another, it would have meant that I would have had to tell Colonel Donovan who Galahad is. And von Wacht-stein

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