Game of Stealth + nemokamas atvežimas! | Robert William Hult | knygos.lt

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University of Washington students Frank Ryder and Joseph Rundstrum close a bar at 2 AM in downtown Seattle. As they walk toward Frank's BMW, gunfire between two local drug dealers splits the cold fall night. A ricocheting bullet hits Frank in the spine. Joseph sees the shooter and pulls Frank underneath a nearby van. Joseph hears the name of the menace--"Pallaccio!" Just after the police arrive, the drug dealers end their battle, but a policeman dies. EMTs take Frank to Swedish Hospital. He will be nearly paraplegic for most of his life. The police question Joseph in detail.
Ten years later, Craig Pallaccio is having breakfast in Sofia, Bulgaria. He gives a waiter a hard time for a poorly served breakfast. In the adjoining booth, two Interpol agents hear him. Pallaccio fits the description of a person they are seeking. They follow Craig around the streets of Sofia. His van gets a flat tire. They offer to help Craig, but he has a load of weapons in his van, and he senses the two men are Interpol.
"I don't have a spare tire," Craig says to them. Can one of you take me to the gas station around the corner? I'll get this one fixed and be right back."
The youngest agent agrees and drives. In the distance, he sees the older agent open the van doors and guns pour onto the street. In the car, Craig brandishes his revolver and tells the Interpol agent to stop in an alley and then to get out. Craig murders the man. Stealing the car, Craig drives speedily to the airport. His next stop is New York.
Twenty years later, Frank Dewey Ryder, thirty years a computer genius, has already sold his Deep Thought Computer System to the US government. In a hard fought presidential campaign, FDR II becomes the next President of the United States, the only other businessman to do so. He is still physically disabled, but naval doctors are working on brain-powered prosthetics, and he is getting injections in his spine to help him cope. Someday soon, doctors believe he may walk again.
Today, he is diving with two bodyguards in the Auau Channel between Lanai and Maui in the Hawaiian Islands. A mysterious shadow in the water approaches and sends out terribly intense ultrasonic vibrations. All three divers experience unbearable pain in their ears and flounder in the water.
Joseph Rundstrum, once a CIA agent, but now assigned to President Ryder through the Secret Service, is onboard the yacht holding a high powered rifle. He thinks the creature (the shadow in the water near the divers) at first is a shark and is about to kill it. He is not aware of the danger the creature poses to the divers. Finally, he recognizes the animal is a harmless dolphin and relaxes. Then he sees one of the Secret Service divers convulsing on the surface of the water. He doesn't see the president. Joseph sends two Marines out in a rescue skiff.
They bring the unconscious chief executive aboard the yacht first and apply CPR. We finally learn that something attacked FDR II and his bodyguards, but what and why? The other two Secret Service bodyguards are also rescued.
Through a mild headache, the bottlenosed dolphin finds his way back to a surveillance submarine, and on cue, as always, he enters a modified torpedo tube into the forward torpedo room of the submarine.
"Welcome home, Shadow. You were gone longer than usual this time," says Dr. Alan Jason. "Did you find something interesting to surveil out there?" Shadow joins his female companion, Adrienne, and they make dolphin love in their waterbed.

A little background:

Shadow is a surveillance tool of the U.S. Submarine Service, a kind of cyborg. His job is to close encounter foreign submarines and send his images back to his submarine. He can achieve this because he has a bio-microcomputer embedded in the forward part of his melon (the acoustic lens outside his brain). This bio-microcomputer communicates with an onboard computer that translates dolphin whistles and clicks into human language. (Markus and Batteau accomplished this in the 1960's, and though their Human-Dolphin translator machine was not perfect, it was practical to a point in training dolphins and small whales.) It forms the science basis of the novel.
Also, when I was a submariner, I often thought how perfect a forward torpedo room of a submarine would be devoid of torpedos and bunks and rather to have a stainless steel dolphin pool in it. How easy it would be for a dolphin to enter and exit a torpedo tube, if that tube was made a little bit bigger. This is the physical basis of the story.
The settings for this manuscript are real. The Center for Marine Studies is an authentic place in Marathon, Florida, now called the Dolphin Research Center. Previously, it was called Flipper's Sea School and the location of many "Flipper" movies. I worked there during a winter and created their first newsletter...