“Tomorrow morning.”
“Oh.” Damn, damn, damn.
“I’m twice Isaac’s age and three times uglier, but Fay’s asked me to show you around the site. She’s scheduled a few interviews with some people she thinks’ll interest you.”
“Joe, it’s too kind of you all to give me such generous slices of your weekends,” says Luisa. Did you know Sachs was on the verge of defection? How? Unless Sachs was a plant? I’m out of my depth here.
“I’m a lonely old man with too much time on my hands.”
33
“So R & D is called the Chicken Coop because the eggheads live there.” Luisa jots in her notebook, smiling, as Joe Napier holds open the control-room door two hours later. “What do you call the reactor building?”
A gum-chewing technician calls out: “Home of the Brave.”
Joe’s expression says funny. “That’s definite
