Brotherhood And Others
“Eastern Standard Time The pilot of Marine One curled the helicopter around the Washington Monument and hovered to a soft landing on the south lawn of the White House.
Inside the blue-and-gold chopper, a big athletic man with smooth features yawned and unbuckled his seatbelt. In the navy blue suit, starched white shirt, and silver tie, he could have been anyone from a visiting foreign dignitary to a favored political donor.
“Are you ready?” asked Dr. Willis Hopkins, a shorter, older man wearing ...black-framed glasses and a tweed jacket that made him look more like a math professor than the current director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
“As ready as you can be for this sort of thing,” the bigger man replied. The side door opened and the staircase lowered. He followed Dr. Hopkins off the helicopter.
By all rights, he should have been exhausted; in the previous seven hours, he’d traveled by F-16 from his home in Patagonia to Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. But the fifteen-minute ride in Marine One had left him feeling completely awake, as if he were hyper-caffeinated.MoreLess
Inside the blue-and-gold chopper, a big athletic man with smooth features yawned and unbuckled his seatbelt. In the navy blue suit, starched white shirt, and silver tie, he could have been anyone from a visiting foreign dignitary to a favored political donor.
“Are you ready?” asked Dr. Willis Hopkins, a shorter, older man wearing ...black-framed glasses and a tweed jacket that made him look more like a math professor than the current director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
“As ready as you can be for this sort of thing,” the bigger man replied. The side door opened and the staircase lowered. He followed Dr. Hopkins off the helicopter.
By all rights, he should have been exhausted; in the previous seven hours, he’d traveled by F-16 from his home in Patagonia to Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. But the fifteen-minute ride in Marine One had left him feeling completely awake, as if he were hyper-caffeinated.MoreLess
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