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Fritek Kantros nodded thoughtfully. People didn't often talk needlessly in the woods. Normally he awoke earlier than his men; in mid-Sixdek2 the sun didn't riseas early as it had when they'd first arrived, but at 0540 it was already wel When he'd finished, the Deputy Foreign Minister, tall andrawboned, sat slouched, introspectively frowning.

Never any big breakouts, just threeor four gooks at a time; no problem. I wishyou were here. ]For a minute they sat, she in her tent, he in a canvas folding chair in frontof his computer, while nothing happened. A grenade hurtled toward him, andKro's gut spasmed.