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"Nearly forty percent of NUMA's projects are designed and planned around in in surface progra we've got But she lags badly in

deep submersibles-a da This is our strong point-We want to e Our Country has the resources, but Fyrie Lie With Kristjan Fyrie we had a good, close working association No, now that he's only a memory, I don't care to see the results of our efforts lost just when our progra paydirt I've talked to Miss Fyrie All of a sudden she's very noncorams with our country "You said she's shrewd," Pitt said "Maybe she's holding out to the highest bidder There's nothing in the book that says she has to be as nanimous as her brother"

"Da is Possible Maybe she hates Americans"

"She's not alone"

"If so, there ot to find it"

"Enter Dirk Pitt, stage left"

"Precisely, but no hanky-panky I' you off the Pacific Oceanlab project definitely and putting you on this one-Forget playing secret agent while you're at it Leave the intrigue and the dead bodies to the National Intelligence Agency

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You're to act in your official capacity as special projects director for NUMA No ht lead to the people who killed Fyrie, Hunnewell and Matajic, you're to pass it on"

"Pass it on to whom?"

Sandecker shrugged "I don't know The NSA didn't see fit to tell me before I left Washin-ton"

"Great, I'll take out a full-page ad in the local newspaper," Pitt said sourly

"I don't recolass and mide a wry face "God, what do they see in this stuff?" He took another s froton the day after toh time to smooth the way for you"

"With-ah-Miss Fyrie?"

"With Fyrie Li one of their top engineers with me to the States to observe and study our techniques while you're to stay here and report on theirs Your primary job will be to restore the close relationship we once enjoyed with the Fyrie's ement"