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RAINBOW SIX TOM CLANCY
John Clark had more time in airplanes than most licensed
pilots, and he knew the statistics as wel as any of them, but he
stil didn’t like the idea of crossing the ocean on a twin-engine
airliner. Four was the right number of engines, he thought,
because losing one meant losing only 25 percent of the
aircraft’s available power, whereas on this United 777, it meant
losing half. Maybe the presence of his wife, one daughter, and a
son-in-law made him a little itchier than usual. No, that wasn’t
right. He wasn’t itchy at al , not about flying anyway. It was just a
lingering . . . what? he asked himself. Next to him, in the window
seat Sandy was immersed in the mystery she’d started the day
before, while he was trying to concentrate on the current issue
of The Economist, and wondering what was putting the cold-air
feeling on the back of his neck. He started to look around the
cabin for a sign of danger but abruptly stopped himself. There
wasn’t anything wrong that he could see, and he didn’t want to
seem like a nervous flyer to the cabin crew. He sipped at his
glass of white wine, shook his shoulders, and went back to the
article on how peaceful the new world was.
Right. He grimaced. Wel , yes, he had to admit that things were
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