“Try us,” the congresswoman replied quietly.
Terry strode forward until he stood above the congresswoman and general, meeting eyes with them and all in the room before speaking again. “I... want... an army,’ he said, “with at least as many soldiers as Primero has, preferably twice as many. And I want at my disposal every single weapon in the arsenal of the United States of America short of a nuclear bomb.”
More silence followed. Finally, the general and congresswoman spoke together. “What’s your plan?” they asked.
The first part of the plan was the trickiest, how to get the biological agent into the systems of only the innocent people of Santa Loretta, with symptoms severe enough to raise alarm among Primero, but not so severe so as to kill the carriers—immediately. The suitable virus h
