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CHAPTER 29
KATHY ORDONEZ WALKED into Ta
FOG DISRUPTS MAJOR GERMAN CITIES
ALL SWISS AIRPORTS CLOSED BY FOG
DEATH TOLL RISES FROM FOG IN ROME
Kathy said, "Shall I send these to Senator Van Luven?" "Yes. Right away," Ta
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The two bitches have finally been disposed of.
His secretary's voice came over the intercom. "Mr. Kingsley, Senator Van Luven is on the line for you. Do you wish to take it?" "Yes." Ta
Senator Van Luven's husband had died of a heart attack. I'll offer my condolences.
FIFTEEN MINUTES LATER, Senator Van Luven and her two attractive young assistants arrived.
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"I heard about your husband's passing away. I'm terribly sorry." Senator Van Luven nodded. "Thank you. He had been ill for a long time, and finally, a few weeks ago…" She forced a smile. "By the way, the information on global warming that you've been sending me is very impressive." "Thank you." "Would you like to show us what you're doing here?" "Of course. How much of a tour would you like? We have a five-hour tour, a four-hour tour, and an hour-and-a-half tour." Cori
"Approximately two thousand. KIG has offices in a dozen major countries all over the world." Cori
"We have five hundred employees in these buildings. The staff members and the research fellows have separate quarters. Every scientist employed here has a minimum IQ of one hundred sixty." Cori
"Follow me, please," Ta
THE SENATOR AND Murphy and Trost followed Ta
Senator Van Luven walked up to one of the odd-looking machines and asked, "What does this do?" "That's a sound spectrograph, Senator. It converts the sound of a voice into a voiceprint. It can recognize thousands of different voices." Trost frowned. "How does it do that?" "Think of it this way. When a friend calls you on the telephone, you instantly recognize the voice because that sound pattern is etched in your brain circuit. We program this machine the same way.
An electronic filter allows only a certain band of frequencies to get through to the recorder, so that we have only the distinguishable features of that person's voice." The rest of the tour became a fascinating montage of giant machines and miniature electronic microscopes and chemical laboratories; rooms with blackboards filled with mysterious symbols, labs with a dozen scientists working together, and offices where a single scientist was absorbed in trying to solve some arcane problem.
They passed a redbrick building with a double set of locks on the door.
Senator Van Luven asked, "What's in there?" "Some secret government research. Sorry, it's out of bounds, Senator." The tour took two hours. When it was over, Ta
"I hope you enjoyed it," Ta
Senator Van Luven nodded. "It was interesting." "Very interesting." Cori
"I loved it!" exclaimed Karolee Trost.
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AS THE DOOR closed behind them, Kathy Ordonez's voice came over the intercom.
"Mr. Kingsley, Saida Hernandez has been trying to reach you. She said it was urgent, but you told me to hold your calls." "Get her for me," Ta
Saida Hernandez was the woman he had sent to the Adams Hotel to plant the bomb.
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The lights did not move.
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The lights on the map started to move and began to slowly focus on Manhattan streets, pa
"Diane Stevens is in a gallery." Ta
The men watched as the lighted area narrowed down to a street with a clothing store, a restaurant, a drugstore, and a bus station. The lights sca