Аннотация
Timothy Zahn
Deadman Switch
Chapter 1
I'd been sitting at the window of my small cubicle for nearly an hour, listening to a Joussein symphonaria and watching the intricate drift of sunlight and shadow across the city from a hundred twenty stories up, when the call I'd been expecting all morning finally came. "Gilead? You in there?"
"Yes, sir," I replied, turning off the music with a wave of my control stick and standing up. The Carillon Building's intercom speakers were very good, and I had no trouble discerning the excitement and anticipation in my employer's voice. With Lord Kelsey-Ramos, that could mean only one thing. "I take it the raid is nearly finished?"
He snorted, just loudly enough for me to hear. "Is it that obvious?"
"It is to me," I said simply.
He snorted again. "Well, you're right. Come on in."
"Yes, sir." Stepping across the starkly plain room—kept so by my own request—I set the control stick down by the player and cro...
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