《Niss Long Remembered Thunder 》作者： - Keith Laumer【EPUB】

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The Long Remembered Thunder 1 In his room at the Elsby Commercial Hotel Tremaine opened his luggage and took out a smalltool kit used a screwdriver to remove the bottom cover plate from the telephone. He inserted atiny aluminum cylinder crimped wires and replaced the cover. Then he dialed a long-distanceWashington number and waited half a minute for the connection. quotFred Tremaine here. Put the buzzer on.quot A thin hum sounded on the wire as the scrambler wentinto operation. quotOkay can you read me all right Im set up in Elsby. Grammonds boys are supposed to keep meinformed. Meanwhile Im not sitting in this damned room crouched over a dial. Ill be out andaround for the rest of the afternoon.quot quotI want to see resultsquot the thin voice came back over the filtered hum of the jamming device.quotYou spent a week with Grammond—I cant wait another. I dont mind telling you certainquarters are pressing me.quot quotFred when will you learn to sit on your news breaks until youve got some answers to go withthe questionsquot quotIm an appointive officialquot Fred said sharply. quotBut never mind that. This fellowMargrave—General Margrave Project Officer for the hyperwave program—hes been on my neck dayand night. I cant say I blame him. An unauthorized transmitter interfering with a Top Secretproject progress slowing to a halt and this Bureau—quot quotLook Fred. I was happy in the lab. Headaches nightmares and all. Hyperwave is my babyremember You elected me to be a leg-man now let me do it my way.quot quotI felt a technical man might succeed where a trained investigator could be misled. And sinceit seems to be pinpointed in your