CHAPTER THIRTY TWO
10:47 p.m.
The Atlantic Ocean, near the coast of Maryland
At night, the ocean changed.
The diver was among the best his country had ever trained. He had been below the sea hundreds of times. And night dives were his favorite.
He worked with a team of three others. Twenty minutes before, they had dropped into a vast sea of bioluminescence, a billion white and blue shining lights, sketching the line between black water and black sky. The boat they dropped from was disguised as a fishing trawler. Its rusty hull hid the fact that it was a scientific vessel, with sensitive detection equipment trained on the bottom of the ocean.
The four men used their weight belts to quickly sink to the bottom—this close to the shore, the water was only about forty feet deep. They waite
