The Road Of Danger – Snippet 54
CHAPTER 15: Ashetown on Madison
Adele, seated at the Battle Direction Center console she had appropriated, watched imagery of the Savoy lifting off. Exhaust curling upward from the plasma thrusters curtained the blockade runner, though the ship was generally visible as something between a shadow and a lumpy cylindrical shape. It was thirty-seven minutes after Principal Hrynko had warned Kirby Pensett that his ship might be seized.
The Road Of Danger – Snippet 53
Daniel sipped the liquor and sluiced it around the inside of his mouth to get the flavor. It was smooth, though from the tingle he suspected that it was roughly the same proof as industrial alcohol from the Power Room. It had the floral taste which its color suggested.
The Road Of Danger – Snippet 52
It would be bad if an RCN officer were arrested aboard a blockade runner carrying arms to the Sunbright rebels. If by some chance the RCN officer were identified as Captain Daniel Leary–that would be very bad indeed.
Answer me, Daniel!
The Road Of Danger – Snippet 51
Adele pursed her lips. “Platt implied he working for Commander Doerries, head of the Fleet Intelligence office for the Forty Stars Sector,” she said. “Platt’s skills were of a high enough order that his claims about his rank on Pleasaunce may well be true. If so, how did he come to be transferred to this backwater?”
“Guarantor Porra,” Tovera said, “is something of a prude.”
Adele didn’t twitch in surprise, but Cory did. It was as though one of the jump-seats folded against the bulkhead had joined the discussion.
The Road Of Danger – Snippet 50
CHAPTER 14: Ashetown on Madison
Adele entered the Battle Direction Center and sat at the empty console beside Cory’s. She had left the borrowed over-garments in the three-wheeler when she and Tovera abandoned it in an alley behind a row of brothels.
The Road Of Danger – Snippet 49
“I’ll pay you,” Platt said, breathing quickly. “I can pay any amount, any amount. I’m a very important man!”
Platt had fouled himself when his leg bent. He was an aging fat man who wore only his own feces and a child’s blood, and he was bragging about his importance.
The Road Of Danger – Snippet 48
CHAPTER 13: Ashetown on Madison
Adele held the pistol out at her side. Though she had only fired twice, the electromagnetic flux that propelled the pellets had heated the little weapon’s barrel shroud hot enough to blister her thigh through the cloth if she dropped it back into the trouser pocket.
The Road Of Danger – Snippet 47
“He’ll have a headache when he wakes up,” Tovera said. “And a hundred pesetas in his pocket. He’ll be fine so long as things go well. If they don’t–”
She shrugged, smiling.
The Road Of Danger – Snippet 46
Daniel shrugged. “Hell if I know,” he said. “It wasn’t me. I didn’t know her well enough to care.”
The Road Of Danger – Snippet 45
CHAPTER 12: Ashetown on Madison
The aircar had curved well out to sea, so Daniel had nothing but time and estimated speed to judge their location by. That was sufficient for him to guess that when they cut the shoreline again, they were about ten miles east of the harbor and therefore well beyond the settle fringes of Ashetown.
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