Seal Team Seven 03: Nucflash by Keith Douglass

Author:Keith Douglass [Douglass, Keith]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Action & Adventure, War & Military
ISBN: 9781101558522
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 2011-10-03T18:30:00+00:00

1030 hours

BKA Headquarters

Wiesbaden, Federal Republic of Germany

“We call him Komissar,” their guide said. She was a dazzling, long-legged German blonde in a severe, gray business suit, whose English contained only a trace of an accent. “And he may be our most important weapon in fighting Euroterrorism.”

The two men trailing her through the gleaming corridors and warrens of the headquarters complex of the German BKA stopped and politely looked as she pointed out what was obviously, for her at least, the showpiece of the tour. Through the double-paned windows of an air-conditioned basement room, the black, white, and silver cabinets of a sprawling, mainframe computer could be seen.

Lieutenant Blake Murdock, the commanding officer of SEAL Seven’s Third Platoon, along with Master Chief Engineman George MacKenzie, had arrived in Wiesbaden the previous evening, on a space-available Air Force flight out of Lakenheath. Early that morning they’d reported to the ultramodern, glass and concrete complex on a hilltop in the suburbs outside of Wiesbaden that was the headquarters of the BKA, the Bundeskriminant, Germany’s Federal Investigation Department. Inge Schmidt, a BKA special agent, had been assigned by the department’s liaison bureau to show the two Navy SEALs around. For a change, both men were wearing civilian suits rather than either Navy dress uniforms or the more usual fatigues or combat dress, and both carried leather attache cases. Murdock felt distinctly uncomfortable in his monkey suit, as he called it, and was looking forward to shedding jacket and tie at the earliest possible moment.

“We’ve heard a lot about Komissar,” Murdock said. “He’s the main reason we’re here, in fact. Some of the information you have squirreled away in here about German terrorist groups may be of importance to our current investigation. Especially your Red Army faction.”

“So the director told me,” the woman said. With a grand sweep of her arm, she indicated the gleaming, impeccably clean and shining cabinets that housed the BKA’s monster computer. “If there is information to be had anywhere on the Continent on the people you are researching, it is here, in Komissar’s data banks.”

“A little out of date, isn’t he?” MacKenzie observed.

“Mac …” Murdock said, warning edging his voice.

“Komissar” was a computer, a very large computer with a mainframe occupying a small, air-conditioned room in the BKA’s basement, and with terminals located throughout the office complex.

“He was installed during the late 1970s,” Inge said, sounding a bit defensive, almost as though a favorite child had just been harshly and unfairly criticized. “And he has been upgraded several times since. He currently stores some tens of millions of pages of information on terrorists and terrorist groups all over the world … focusing particularly on those individuals operating in Europe, of course. We may not have access to your American Super-Cray computers, but Komissar is more than powerful enough to do the job expected of him.”

“I’m sure the chief wasn’t criticizing your machine,” Murdock said diplomatically. “Or your methods.”

“No, ma’am,” the big SEAL added. “He’s just a lot bigger than what

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