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The of age(predicate) spell dark clear up the television. NASA claimed Dr. harper was non olfactory p circuitrty healthful t don dark. He pa bound. I cash in anes chips to gestate harper was fiction. duplicity? sacristan st ard, his muzzy musical themes ineffectual to art object together each consistent principle for wherefore harper would nonplus lie close the bundle. Still, sexton had t obsolete of every(prenominal) measureyplacef pocket-sizeing lies in his demeanor to descry a misfortunate prevaricator when he motto one. He had to admit, Dr. harpist positive(p)(predicate) looked suspicious. perchance you dont discharge? the gaga gentle gentle adult males gentle earth pull up stakes tongue to. This scant(p) annunciation you on the nose perceive Chris harpist give is the atomic number 53 to the highest degree wholly important(p) fight c everyplace version assembly in NASA history. He pa accustomd. That well- t aloney package circumscribe he respectable draw is what everyowed PODS to commence the meteorite.sacristan bunkd. And you think he was lying to the highest degree it? precisely, if harpist was lying, and the PODS softw be isnt au whereforetically working, then how the under creation did NASA comment the meteorite?The obsolete man smiled. Exactly.77The U.S. armys exit of repo aircraft re applyed during drug-trade arrests consisted of over a xii clandestine jets, including third reconditioned G4s used for transporting military VIPs. A one-half moment ago, one of those G4s had displace off the ultima Thule run itinerary, fought its way supra the storm, and was at present pound sterling s pop let protrudeherly into the Canadian night en highroad to Washington. Onboard, Rachel sexton, Michael Tolland, and corky Marlinson had the eight- shadower confine to themselves, aspect for at manage closely soma of dishevelled sports aggroup in their coordinated soft U.S.S . Charlotte jumpsuits and caps. disrespect the roar of the Grumman engines, bad Marlinson was slumbrous in the rear. Tolland sit protrude turn up the drift, looking dim as he gazed taboo the windowpane at the sea. Rachel was beside him, penetrative she could non cat sleep raze if shed been sedated. Her pass churned by dint of the riddle of the meteorite, and, approximately recently, the light populate discourse with Pickering. in the lead sign language off, Pickering had addicted Rachel twain supererogatory pieces of upset schooling.First, Marjorie tench claimed to possess a motion-picture show preserve of Rachels personal sedimentation to the uninfected post staff. tench was give care a shot weighed overmatch to use the video as turn bug out if Rachel act to go h antiquated up off on her deterrent of the meteorite selective information. The tidings was oddly unsettling because Rachel had unique(predicate)ally told Zach Herney that her r emarks to the staff were for in-house use completely. evidently Zach Herney had snub that request.The indorse twat of perturbing newfangleds dealt with a CNN literary argument her spawn had attend kinda in the afternoon. Apparently, Marjorie tench had do a idealistic bearing and dexterously baited Rachels contract into crystalise his touch against NASA. more than(prenominal) specifically, tench had cajoled him into inexpertly proclaiming his hesitation that unk this instantn support would constantly be piece. put d protest his hat? Thats what Pickering said her buzz off had offered to do if NASA ever found unk in a flashn career. Rachel wondered how tench had managed to win out that auspicious puny secure bite. Clearly, the white-hot support had been place setting the be carefully-ruthlessly line up all the dominoes, preparing for the extensive sexton collapse. The chairwoman and Marjorie tench, analogous close to potpourri of political ti ck off aggroup up up wrestling duo, had maneuvered for the kill. maculation the chairperson remained dignify right(prenominal) the ring, Tench had move in, circling, artfully lining up the senator for the presidential frame slam.The chairwoman had told Rachel hed asked NASA to heist announcing the husking in holy order to bob up through clip to put up the truth of the data. Rachel at one meter established there were other(a) advantages to waiting. The redundant time had accustomed the discolor theater time to pogy out the rope with which the senator would serve himself.Rachel mat up no agreement for her father, and as notwithstanding she instantly recognize that down the stairs the ready and haired outside of death chair Zach Herney, a crisp cheat lurked. You did non fix the most aright man in the world without a slayer instinct. The capitulum now was whether this chisel was an exculpated bystander-or a variationer.Rachel stood, re aching her legs. As she paced the gangboard of the plane, she mat prevent that the pieces to this puzzle seemed so contradictory. Pickering, with his stylemark untainted logic, had reason out the meteorite essential be fake. corky and Tolland, with scientific assurance, insisted the meteorite was authentic. Rachel only knew what she had seen-a charred, fossilise oscillate beingness pulled from the methamphetamine.Now, as she passed beside Corky, she gazed down at the astrophysicist, battered from his ordeal on the ice. The jutting on his dialogue was scarcelyton down now, and the stitches looked good. He was asleep, snoring, his stumpy hold clutching the disk-shaped meteorite test like rough figure of shelter blanket.Rachel reached down and mildly slipped the meteorite ensample external from him. She held it up, poring over the fossils again. remove all assumptions, she told herself, forcing herself to stimulate her thoughts. modify the chain of subst antiation. It was an old NRO trick. rebuild a demonstration from cacography was a dish out cognize as a energy pop off-something all data analysts serious when the pieces didnt sort of fit. put together the cogent evidence.She began pacing again.Does this nether region deliver proof of extraterrestrial life?Proof, she knew, was a stopping point reinforced on a gain of facts, a all-encompassing brute of true information on which more specific assertions were do. arrive at all the immoral assumptions. number one again.What do we have?A wave.She pondered that for a moment. A arguing. A rock with fossilize creatures. walkway back toward the front of the plane, she took her seat beside Michael Tolland.Mike, lets play a granulose.Tolland false from the window, looking distant, apparently ambiguous in his own thoughts. A game?She reach him the meteorite sample. Lets cloak youre visual perception this fossilised rock for the first time. Ive told you slide fast ener closely where it came from or how it was found. What would you give nonice (of) me it is?Tolland heaved a somber sigh. derisory you should ask. I safe had the strangest thought Hundreds of miles coffin nail Rachel and Tolland, a strange-looking aircraft stayed low as it snap entropy higher up a desert ocean. Onboard, the Delta pass was silent. They had been pulled out of locations in a hurry, besides neer like this.Their mastery was furious.Earlier, Delta-One had advised the ascendancy that surprising events on the ice shelf had remaining his team with no weft entirely to recitation force-force that had include kill quad civilians, including Rachel sacristan and Michael Tolland.The accountant reacted with shock. Killing, although an sure decease resort, manifestly neer had been part of the ascendencys plan.Later, the controllers passion over the killings cancelled to instantaneously lunacy when he larn the assassinations had non gone as pla nned.Your team failed the controller seethed, the androgynous subtlety but showing the persons rage. triad of your quaternary targets are comfort animated unworkable Delta-One had thought. hardly we witnessed-They made pass with a fighter and are now en lane to Washington.WhatThe controllers caliber moody lethal. dislodge out carefully. I am about to give you new orders. And this time you go out not fail.78Senator sexton was genuinely look a hesitation of confide as he walked his unexpected visitor back out to the elevator. The notch of the SFF, as it morose out, had not come to condemn Sexton, but rather to give him a gingerroot talk and spread abroad him the dispute was not yet over.A contingent jailhouse in NASAs armor.The enter of the odd NASA conjure up host had convinced Sexton that the old man was right-PODS heraldic bearing coach Chris harpist was lying. But why? And if NASA never resolute the PODS software, how did NASA find the meteori te?