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Название книги: Deep Six
Автор(ы): Clive Cussler
Жанр: Боевик
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Dedication


To Tubby’s Bar & Grill in Alhambra,
Rand’s Roundup on Wilshire Boulevard,
The Black Knight in Costa Mesa,
and Shanners’ Bar in Denver.
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN




Prelude
The
San Marino


July 15,1966


The Pacific Ocean

The girl shaded the sun from her brown eyes and stared at a large petrel gliding above the ship’s after cargo boom. She admired the bird’s soaring grace for a few minutes, then, growing bored, she rose to a sitting position, revealing evenly spaced red bars across her tanned back, etched there by the slats of an ancient steamer chair.
She looked around for signs of the deck crew, but they were nowhere in sight, so she shyly shifted her breasts to a more comfortable position inside the scoop-necked bra of her bikini.
Her body was hot and sweaty from the humid tropical air. She moved her hand across her firm stomach and felt the sweat