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The Bribe OneLeaving behind the horrid destruction and inexplicable events of Yamamoto's office, Campbell thoughtfully took the slower hall elevator down to the basement garage. The executive elevator bubble was shattered with blast holes leaving it exposed to the exterior and its structural integrity unsafe. The idea of sailing out into the early morning sky to splat sixty floors below didn't appeal to him. Strangely, the fact that he would momentarily rocket his antique and battered police hydro-clipper into lower global orbit didn't faze him a bit.
Once he had clearance from Global Avionic Control, he blasted away from New Detroit and the island of Michigan. His flight plan, logged into his navigational computer, was for the Global Police Headquarters in Denver, Colorado—one of th
