INTRODUCING A FRIEND
When I was asked to introduce Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and their friends who serve the National Underwater and Marine Agency, I accepted with great pleasure and enthusiasm. I've had the privilege of knowing Kurt and Joe for many years. We first met when they joined NUMA at...
INTRODUCING A FRIEND
When I was asked to introduce Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and their friends who serve the National Underwater and Marine Agency, I accepted with great pleasure and enthusiasm. I've had the privilege of knowing Kurt and Joe for many years. We first met when they joined NUMA at Admiral Sandecker's invitation not long after Al Giordino and I came on board. Although we've never had the opportunity to work on the same project together, Kurt and Joe's escapades above and underwater have often fired my imagination and left me wishing I'd done that.
In some ways Kurt and I are similar He's a few years younger, and we hardly look alike, but he lives in an old remodeled boathouse on the Potomac River and collects antique dueling pistols, a wise choice when you consider how much simpler they are to maintain and store than the old cars in my aircraft hangar He's also into rowing and sailing, which sends me into exhaustion just thinldng about it.
Kurt is resourceful and shrewd, and he has more guts than a white shark on steroids. He's also a genuine nice guy with two tons of integrity who believes in the flag, mothers, and apple pie. To my chagrin, the ladies find him very attractive, even more attractive than they find me. The only obscure conclusion I can reach—it pains me deeply to say so—is that between the two of us he's better looking.
I'm happy that Kurt and Joe's exploits are finally being chronicled from the NUMA Files. There is not the slightest doubt that you will find them entertaining as well as an intriguing way to while away the time. I know that I have.
PROLOGUE
July 25, 1956
South of Nantucket Island
SO QUICKLY DID THE PflLE SHIP appear, she seemed to spring whole from the depths, gliding like a ghost across the silver pool of luminescence cast by the near full moon. Tiaras of porthole lights glittered along her bone-white sides as she raced eastward in the warm night, her sharply raked bow knifing through the flat seas as easily as a stiletto cutting through black satin.
High in the darkened bridge of the Swedish-American liner Stockholm, seven hours and 130 miles east of New York City, Second Mate Gunnar Nillson scanned the moonlit ocean. The big rectangular windows that MTapped around the wheelhouse gave him a panoramic view as far as he could see. The surface was calm except for a ragged swell here and there. The temperature was in the seventies, a pleasant change from the heavy humid air that weighed over the Stockholm that morning as the liner left its berth at the Fifty-seventh Street pier and headed dovm the Hudson River. Remains of the woolly overcast drifted in tattered shrouds across the porcelain moon. Visibility was a half dozen miles to starboard.
Nillson swept his eyes to port, where the thin, dark horizon line became lost behind a hazy murldness that veiled the stars and welded the sl
Amennyiben az Ön által választott könyvesbolt neve mellett
1-5
szerepel, kérjük kattintson a bolt nevére, majd a megjelenő elérhetőségeken érdeklődjön a készletről és foglalja le a könyvet.
Az Ön adatainak védelme és a felhasználói élmény javítása érdekében weboldalunk különböző sütiket (cookie) használ.
Az "Összes elfogadása" gomb megnyomásával elfogadja a sütik használatát. A "Testreszabás" gomb megnyomásával a sütikről részletes információkat olvashat és egyedileg beállíthatja azokat.
Cookie-k és Adatvédelem
Mik azok a sütik (cookie-k)?
A cookie-k szöveges fájlok, amelyek egy weboldal információit tárolják a számítógépen. Kétféle sütit különböztetünk meg: az első
az oldal működéséhez elengedhetetlenül szükséges, a másik pedig a magasabb szintű felhasználói élményhez szükséges.
Elengedhetetlen sütik
Ezeknek a sütiknek mindig be kell lenniük kapcsolva, mivel segítenek a felhasználói fiókkal kapcsolatos műveletekben és az
adatvédelmi beállítások tárolásában.
Személyre szabottabb és relevánsabb hirdetések
Az alábbi cookie-k használatával hozzájárulhat a személyre szabottabb és relevánsabb hirdetések megjelenítéséhez, valamint
segíthet nekünk jobban megérteni és fejleszteni az oldalunk teljesítményét.