The Betrayers
“Taking off, we had a good view of Honolulu harbor from the air and caught a glimpse of the naval installations at Pearl Harbor to the west. I would have liked to know more about those. After all, that was where the Japs had struck in 1941. It wasn’t inconceivable that the Chinese had hit on the notion of perpetuating a good old Oriental custom, with Monk’s help.
We straightened out over the ocean and flew along in a more or less easterly direction past Waikiki and Diamond Head, discovering that... what had looked like a solid mountain from the ground was actually an extinct volcano with a definite, hollow crater. There were more boats out than there had been that morning, but the seas around Oahu were still by no means crowded.
“Matt?” Isobel’s voice indicated that, having punished me sufficiently, she was willing to stop being mad at me.
I turned from the window, reminding myself that I was still playing a role. My cover as an agent in disgrace killing time in the tropics hadn’t, as far as I knew, greatly impressed anybody who really mattered—I’d never been as sold on it as the man who’d thought of it—but I couldn’t just drop it without warning the opposition that I had something new and tricky in mind.MoreLess
We straightened out over the ocean and flew along in a more or less easterly direction past Waikiki and Diamond Head, discovering that... what had looked like a solid mountain from the ground was actually an extinct volcano with a definite, hollow crater. There were more boats out than there had been that morning, but the seas around Oahu were still by no means crowded.
“Matt?” Isobel’s voice indicated that, having punished me sufficiently, she was willing to stop being mad at me.
I turned from the window, reminding myself that I was still playing a role. My cover as an agent in disgrace killing time in the tropics hadn’t, as far as I knew, greatly impressed anybody who really mattered—I’d never been as sold on it as the man who’d thought of it—but I couldn’t just drop it without warning the opposition that I had something new and tricky in mind.MoreLess
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