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Автор: Derek Lambert
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      THE RED DOVE

      Derek Lambert

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      Collins Crime Club

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      First published in Great Britain by Hamish Hamilton Ltd 1982

      Copyright © Derek Lambert 1982

      Design and illustration by Micaela Alcaino © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2018

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      Derek Lambert asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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      Source ISBN: 9780008268428

      Ebook Edition © JANUARY 2018 ISBN: 9780008268411

      Version: 2017-12-20

      RED ALERT!

      Dove lurched violently to one side when it was seventy-five miles above the earth.

      A beam weapon, Talin guessed, gripping the hand controller. Not a direct hit but it must have passed within a few feet of the fuselage.

      Dove began to turn on her side, shuddering.

      Talin fought the manual controls. Dove settled again, then suddenly dipped her nose.

      Talin pulled, coaxed, shouted; but his arms were as heavy as lead as the earth pulled at them and his reactions were as slow as a drunk’s. Gradually Dove raised her beautiful, aristocratic nose. And it was then that Talin noticed that the red light beside the unconscious body of Sedov was glowing red. The bomb in the cargo bay must have been primed by shock waves from the beam.

      Down plunged the Dove. With enough nuclear power inside her, Talin thought, to devastate a city. His brain froze. His head slumped forward …

      For Frank and Marsha Taylor,

      friends and advisers

       The dove descending breaks the air

       With flame of incandescent terror.

      T. S. Eliot (1888–1965)

      CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

       Part Two: Treatment

       Chapter Five

       Chapter Six

       Chapter Seven

       Part Three: Script

       Chapter Eight

       Chapter Nine

       Chapter Ten

       Chapter Eleven

       Chapter Twelve

       Chapter Thirteen

       Chapter Fourteen

       Chapter Fifteen

       Chapter Sixteen

       Chapter Seventeen

       Chapter Eighteen

       Part Four: Première

       Chapter Nineteen

       Chapter Twenty

       Chapter Twenty-One

       Chapter Twenty-Two

       Chapter Twenty-Three

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