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He wanted the world to slow down for a minute. Drake was due to report to the President in under an hour about what had been lost in the desert out at Groom Lake aboard the Hercules.
A stealth aircraft that could reach into Groom Lake and somewhere in China? That had to be the Russians, but his intelligence reports hinted at no such craft. How was he supposed to—
“Do you think it was the same aircraft?”
Drake knew there was a reason he liked Colonel Gray. Woman kept her head in a crisis.
Chase tipped her head one way and then the other. “At least the same conceptual design—I cannot speak to the likelihood of it being the same frame number with the evidence I have. It’s a reasonable supposition as both observed maneuvers were of such exceptional caliber that it would seem unlikely t
