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i 1 ' J« CHAPTER fii 1 The cloud of coal dust driven deeply into his lungs nearly caused Howard Reed to pull his mail truck off the road and throw up onto the stunted, burnt grass. But he coughed and spat and tightened his gut. Reed worked the accelerator and raced past the haul roads where...

Munich, Germany/Bali, Indonesia I SPEAK RUSSIAN well enough," Secretary of Defense Bud Halliday said, "but I prefer to speak English." "That suits me," the Russian colonel said with a heavy accent. "I'm always happy to speak foreign languages." Halliday gave the Russian a sour smile in...

PREFA CE Every visitor to an archaeological site knows the difficulty, pften indeed the impossibility, of imagining what it was lik^e before its buildings were destroyed. The ruins are dead things; they speak their own language, which is romantic enough, but does not evoke a picture of the...