Assault On the Empress (2012)
“The map and the huge, circular light table on which it was placed dominated the center of an otherwise sterile room approximately thirty by thirty and built with all the charm of a bomb shelter. Shipping lanes were lighted in red dashes and airline lanes in blue. There was a red plastic X set roughly equidistant from the Azores and Gibralter. No one was in the room but them and General Argus. The helicopter had ferried them to a farmer’s field where two Harrier jets had awaited them. No locatio...n had been given, but Hughes judged they had been flown north and east. His guess was somewhere in Virginia and it hadn’t been important enough to ask.
On the far wall were banks of television screens, monitoring the three major networks and CNN, regular programming on the three networks preempted for special coverage of the hostage crisis in the Atlantic. But nothing seemed to be happening. When Hughes and Babcock had reunited, they were driven for approximately ten minutes to what appeared, on the outside, to be an abandoned factory, simply told to wait then, while the driver and the man with him had pulled off.MoreLess
On the far wall were banks of television screens, monitoring the three major networks and CNN, regular programming on the three networks preempted for special coverage of the hostage crisis in the Atlantic. But nothing seemed to be happening. When Hughes and Babcock had reunited, they were driven for approximately ten minutes to what appeared, on the outside, to be an abandoned factory, simply told to wait then, while the driver and the man with him had pulled off.MoreLess
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