CHAPTER 46
The digital clock in the operations room at Appenzell said: 24th of August 13:45 hours Central European Time. The Tokyo financial markets were due to open at 08:00 hours local time. One hour from now.
Erik Weissenstein placed Appenzell on Operational Alert, the run-up to kick-off.
The package of communications designed to start the project which Gail had prepared was waiting to be fed into the wire and news services on the eastern Pacific seaboard, notably in Japan and Singapore.
Now, dressed in a loose-fitting shirt and baggy slacks that did something to hide his obesity, Weissenstein stood beside Claude Rainier and read the "news items" as they appeared on the standby server's monitor screen, a broad, satisfied grin on his fleshy face.
Gail's package got a round of uneasy
