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Why didn't you stop the the park?

"I tried, but by the time our internal security forces could act, it was too late De Croix and Castile have already been in the 92

park for two hours and both refuse to leave We can only keep our fingers crossed that Rondheim's killers stick to their time schedule"

"Cutting it a bit fine, aren't you?" Pitt said slowly

Kipps YOU can Control, others you can only stand by and watch"

The car turned off the freeway onto Harbor Boulevard and soon pulled up to the eate, and while the driver showed his credentials and asked directions frouard, Pitt leaned out theand watched the monorail train pass overhead they were at the north end of the park and all he could see over the landscaped s was the top half of the Matterhorn and the turrets on the Fantasyland castle The gate was pushed open and they were passed in

By the tiround hallway to the park security offices, he was beginning to think how good that hospital bed in Reykjavik had felt and wondered how soon he could fall into a replacement He wasn't sure what he expected to find in the park security offices but he had hardly envisioned what he stepped into

The e; it looked like a scaleddown version of the war rooon The main table ran for at least fifty feet and was circled by over twenty people There was a radio in one corner and the operator was busily pointing out locations to a marker who stood on a rah and covered half the facing wall Pitt walked slowly around the table and stood under the beautifully contoured and painted map of Disneyland

He was studying the hts and the trail of blue fluorescent tape thethroulh the park traffic areas when Kippmann tapped him on the shoulder

"Ready to go to work?"

"My body is still running on Iceland time It's past five o'clock there I could stand a little bracer"

"I'man whose eyes stared out at Pitt frolasses "Alcohol has never been permitted in any area of the park since we opened And we intend to keep it that way"

"Sorry about that," Pitt said goodnaturedly He looked at Kippmann expectantly

Kippmann took the cue "Major Dirk Pitt, allow me to introduce Mr Dan Lazard, Chief of Park security"

Lazard's grip was fir your injuries Do you think you're up to this?"