chapter Thirty
Ottawa, 0500 Hours
When Janus finished reading General Shipley's report aloud, the Italian stood up and said, excitedly, "They are getting ready to invade us!"
"They have already invaded us." The Frenchman.
"We are too late. It is a catastrophe." The Russian. "There is no way ..."
Janus interrupted. "Gentlemen, it is a catastrophe we can prevent."
"How? You know their demands." The Englishman.
"Their demands are out of the question." The Brazilian. "It's no business of theirs what we do with our trees. The so-called greenhouse effect is scientific garbage, totally unproven."
"And what about us?" The German. "If they force us to clean up the air over our cities, we would have to shut down our factories. We would have no industries left."
"And we would have to stop manufacturing cars," the Japanese said. "And then where would the civilized world be?"
"We are all in the same position." The Russian. "If we have to stop all pollution, as they insist, it would destroy the world's economies. We must buy more time until Star Wars is ready to take them on."
Janus said crisply, "We are agreed on that. Our immediate problem is to keep our people calm, and avoid the spread of panic."
"How is Commander Bellamy progressing?" The Canadian.
"He's making excellent progress. He should be finished in the next day or two."
The Doomsday Conspiracy
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- The Face of a Stranger
- The Silent Cry
- The Sins of the Wolf
- The Dark Assassin
- The Whitechapel Conspiracy
- The Sheen of the Silk
- The Twisted Root
- The Lost Symbol
- After the Funeral
- The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
- After the Darkness
- The Best Laid Plans
- The Naked Face
- The Other Side of Me
- The Sands of Time
- The Sky Is Falling
- The Stars Shine Down
- The Lying Game #6: Seven Minutes in Heaven
- The First Lie
- All the Things We Didn't Say
- The Good Girls
- The Heiresses
- The Perfectionists
- The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly
- The Lies That Bind
- Ripped From the Pages
- The Book Stops Here
- The New Neighbor
- A Cry in the Night
- The Phoenix Encounter
- The Dead Will Tell: A Kate Burkholder Novel
- The Perfect Victim
- Fear the Worst: A Thriller
- The Naturals, Book 2: Killer Instinct
- The Fixer
- The Good Girl
- Cut to the Bone: A Body Farm Novel
- The Devil's Bones
- The Bone Thief: A Body Farm Novel-5
- The Bone Yard
- The Breaking Point: A Body Farm Novel
- The Inquisitor's Key
- The Girl in the Woods
- The Dead Room
- The Death Dealer
- The Silenced
- The Hexed (Krewe of Hunters)
- The Night Is Alive
- The Night Is Forever
- The Night Is Watching
- In the Dark
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- The Cursed
- The Dead Play On
- The Forgotten (Krewe of Hunters)
- Under the Gun
- The Paris Architect: A Novel
- The Darling Dahlias and the Silver Dollar Bush
- Always the Vampire
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- The Darling Dahlias and the Naked Ladies
- The Darling Dahlias and the Texas Star
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- The Creeping
- The Killing Hour
- The Long Way Home
- Death of a Stranger
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- Weighed in the Balance
- Funeral in Blue
- Defend and Betray
- Execution Dock
- Cain His Brother
- A Breach of Promise
- A Dangerous Mourning
- A Sudden Fearful Death
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- Angels Demons
- Deception Point
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- A Pocket Full of Rye
- A Murder is Announced
- A Caribbean Mystery
- Ordeal by Innocence
- Evil Under the Sun