“He has brought four international defense raiders, two private banking partners from Zurich, and the Solicitor General.”
“He has informed the conference that an imminent foreign cyber-strike has compromised our military command channels.”
“He is preparing to issue an extraordinary, emergency administrative mandamus—a judicial decree permanently conveying Conduit Nine and the nation’s strategic launch ciphers to his private defense consortium in Switzerland for four hundred million dollars in carried equity.”
“He believes you are lying in an intensive care bed in Omaha, comatose from a massive neurogenic collapse.”
“He believes that Judge Hanley signed the emergency conservatorship order.”
“He believes that Clara Bennett is a broken, drugged ghost who will never speak again.”
The Admiral bared his teeth in a cold, terrifying line of white bone:
“The Nightwatch descends to Andrews in six minutes. A Sikorsky White Hawk is running on the tarmac to take us to the Capitol grounds.”
