Specter (2011)
Specter
“The drone of the four turboprops had been steady and unchanging since they’d lifted off from San Vito thirty minutes before. The aircraft’s crew chief had ducked his head into the cargo deck moments before to announce that they’d just gone feet-dry.
Murdock turned and glanced at one of the small, round cabin windows, but there was nothing at all to be seen outside. The night was as black as the bottom of the sea. Perhaps later, when they got above this crap, he would be able to see some stars. .... . .
For now, though, safety lay in flying low. Somewhere down there in that darkness, he knew, was Albania ... yet another tiny Balkan nation with a bitterly unhappy past.
Under the tyrant Enver Hoxha, the tiny country—only about the size of Maryland—had closed itself off from the rest of the world, a small and bankrupt hermit kingdom in some ways more paranoid about contamination from without than North Korea. A hard-line Stalinist, Hoxha had ended relations with the Soviet Union in 1960 when Khrushchev had demanded a naval base at Vlorë.MoreLess
Murdock turned and glanced at one of the small, round cabin windows, but there was nothing at all to be seen outside. The night was as black as the bottom of the sea. Perhaps later, when they got above this crap, he would be able to see some stars. .... . .
For now, though, safety lay in flying low. Somewhere down there in that darkness, he knew, was Albania ... yet another tiny Balkan nation with a bitterly unhappy past.
Under the tyrant Enver Hoxha, the tiny country—only about the size of Maryland—had closed itself off from the rest of the world, a small and bankrupt hermit kingdom in some ways more paranoid about contamination from without than North Korea. A hard-line Stalinist, Hoxha had ended relations with the Soviet Union in 1960 when Khrushchev had demanded a naval base at Vlorë.MoreLess
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