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Excerpt from the novel Rising Storm by S.M. Stirling
Dieter smiled. She might not be mad, but she wasn’t happy, either. While they’d been thrashing out whether Sarah was to go or not, he’d been wondering if he dared call his old friend Jeff Goldberg, his former partner in the Sector. I suppose I might as well, he thought. Sully must have made a report by now, and even if he hadn’t, they already knew about my association with the notorious Sarah Connor. Which means that Jeff knows, too. He went to the wall and took down a heavily framed pa
An hour and a half later the phone range. Dieter snatched it up. “Yes?” he said. “I don’t even know why I’m talking to you.” “It’s because in spite of everything you’ve heard, you know you can trust me,” Dieter said. “If I can trust you then why does it look like you’ve gone over to the other side?” Jeff’s voice was stressed, not usual. Dieter wondered if, in spite of their precautions, this call was being monitored—if Jeff was letting this call be monitored. “You know better t