John Ringo by The Hot Gate

Author:The Hot Gate
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Science Fiction, General, Adventure, Military, Fiction
ISBN: 9781439134320
Publisher: Baen Books
Published: 2011-05-03T04:00:00+00:00

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“Argus?” Tyler said, sitting down on his rack. It wasn’t much better than the Under Minister’s. In fact, it wasn’t as good as the Foreign Ministers. He didn’t really care, much, about perks per se, either as status items or from a comfort perspective. Better than a cave in a New Hampshire winter. So, he’d been a nice guy as usual. He was regretting that.

“Sir?”

Hypercom connected through gates, at least if it wasn’t jammed, and faster than light. Tyler could talk to his AI on Wolf as fast as on the Troy.

“I find the fact that Doctor Palencia was ‘well aware’ of Parker’s opinion of Argentinean maintenance…interesting. Are there correspondence between…hmm…the Argentinean or other foreign ministries and the commander of the 143rd on the subject of Parker?”

“If I had that information it would be privileged military communication and you would have to obtain clearance, sir,” Argus replied.

“What if we already stole it?” Tyler asked. “We’ve got an intelligence department.”

“Oh, look, here it is,” Argus said.

“You could have just gone there, Argus,” Tyler said. “Download. I want to read it.”

“Are you sure?” Argus said. “Have you taken your blood pressure medicine?”

“I don’t take blood pressure medicine, Argus,” Tyler said. “In fact, don’t download it.”

“Oh. Good.”

“Print it out.”

A couple of minutes later he looked up.

“Argus, don’t screw around with this or I’ll fly back to Troy and pull your core again. I want every similar communication.”

“Yes, sir.”

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