The Rock (30 page)

“Earlier this year they seized a bunch of the land over that way”—Franklin pointed to the north—”from the Bureau of Land Management, which had control of it. I used to watch from there occasionally. See, the thing to the west, is the Nevada Test Site where they set off nine-hundred and twenty-eight nukes over the years, until the ban. No one’s sneaking through that way, not if they want to live. And south is Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository. Ain’t coming through that way either. So, they focus their security to the east and north.”

Franklin gave Simmons a hand as they made it over the lip of the cut onto the side of the ridge proper. “They wanted it all, but the law says that over a certain acreage, there have to be hearings, so the Air Force seized up to their limit the last couple of years and they’ll probably do it again this year, until they get all they want, piece by piece.”

Simmons would have liked to ask a few more questions but he was too winded to do anything but grunt.

“We have another eight hundred feet of altitude to make,” Franklin said.

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Books by Bob Mayer writing as Robert Doherty

AREA 51 SERIES

AREA 51

AREA 51 THE REPLY

AREA 51 THE MISSION

AREA 51 SPHINX

AREA 51 THE GRAIL

AREA 51 EXCALIBUR

AREA 51 THE TRUTH

AREA 51 NOSFERATU

AREA 51 THE LEGEND

ATLANTIS SERIES

ATLANTIS

ATLANTIS BERMUDA TRIANGLE

ATLANTIS: DEVIL’S SEA

ATLANTIS: GATE

ATLANTIS: ASSAULT

ATLANTIS: BATTLE FOR ATLANTIS

THE ROCK

PSYCHIC WARRIOR

PSYCHIC WARRIOR: PROJECT AURA