Chapter 24
11:15 a.m.
Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center - Bluemont, Virginia
“Weapons?” a man said to Luke.
Twenty Secret Service men were on the pad when the helicopter came down. They operated smoothly and efficiently, separating Luke and Ed from the main group, and hustling the President and Vice President toward the gaping maw of the open tunnel. The entrance was two stories high, framed in corrugated metal.
Overhead, helicopter g*n ships filled the air like dragonflies. The President’s helicopter had flown out here with a ten-chopper escort.
Luke and Ed stood isolated on the tarmac, about twenty feet apart. They were fenced in by barbed wire. The Secret Service searched them roughly. Two men held Luke’s arms while others reached inside his clothes. His clothes rippled wi
