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Nicholas Boothman
General Graves slammed his fist on the table. "They've
crossed the exclusion zone. We have to go to DEFCON 1. Tell
Premier Volkov we will turn his country into glass."
The President looked at the screen. Premier Volkov
appeared. He looked tired.
"Mr. President," Volkov said, his voice stripped of
pleasantries. "My submarines are in position. I am preparing
to seize the island."
Bailey Matthews looked into the camera. She needed to
bluff. She needed to say, Go ahead, make my day.
Her throat locked. The biological override kicked in.
"I see them," she said.
"If you intervene," Volkov said, reciting his script, "I will
authorize a nuclear strike."
"I don't believe you," the President blurted out. "You have
a dacha in Sochi. You have a twenty-year-old mistress. You
don't want to die. You aren't a martyr. You're a politician."
Volkov's face turned purple. He tried to deny it. He
gagged.
"I..." Volkov stammered. "I... I do enjoy the yacht."
"So there it is. I am a coward. You are a hedonist. I'm not
going to be the person who ends the human species. Turn
the boats around."
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