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through the lobby and into the dining room.
    Michael Green, having a well-earned break away from his clothing business, watched von Sandow through the periphery of his vision, all the time engaging his NKVD contact and lover in conversation.
    Seemingly, no signal was passed, none that could have been detected for what it was in any case, but Green, also known as Iskhak Abdulovich Akhmerov, and presently the NKVD rezident in America, understood the cough and handkerchief to be a definite confirmation that his agent had snared her target, and that it was likely that the information would soon start to flow from the senator from Illinois, namely Humphrey Randall Forbes.
    With professional care, he idly cased the room again, and made eye contact with the huge breasted woman sat three sofas away, drawing a coquettish smile that promised everything he wished for.
    He intended to enjoy the sexual delights that Dilara Bölükbaşı would offer when she would clandestinely slip into his room later.
    For now, he accepted her smile with the natural nod of a man interested but too shy to approach, and resumed reading the sports pages of his paper.
    The FBI pair assigned to watch Dilara Bölükbaşı, suspected as being a member of Turkish Intelligence, and also suspected of being a double agent for the NKVD, saw the exchange, but neither felt it was anything but a man-woman thing, based around the wares the Turkish woman had prominently on display. There had been a number of other such non-events in the hour that they had observed her.
    Of greater concern to them now was the presence of the Senator, member of the recently established Armed Services Committee. One agent slipped away to make an urgent call, summoning reinforcements.

The third angel sounded, and a great star fell from Heaven, burning like a torch, and it fell upon a third of the rivers, and on the springs of waters. The name of the Star is called Wormwood, and a third of the waters became Wormwood, and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.
     
    Revelations 8:11
     

Chapter 151 – THE HORROR
     

0601 hrs, Monday, 27th May 1946, Briefing room, North Field, Tinian, Mariana Island Group.
     
    They had practised the mission hard, as much as the short time span would permit, which had meant, including the day the order had arrived, twenty-five days of take-offs, precise navigation, dropping inactive bombs, three actual bombing missions, and all things that had generally welded them into a first-class team.
    The day beforehand, their B-29 had dropped a pumpkin bomb on Miyazaki, as part of a group of B-29s sent on a milk run job over an ailing enemy nation.
    It had been a singularly rude awakening when two of the Superfortresses were chopped from the sky by Japanese fighters of a type never seen before.
    One rear gunner, Staff Sergeant Arthur Hanebury, took out one of the impressive fighters, sending it spinning away into the sea, important pieces detaching themselves with every rotation.
    The surviving two fighters damaged two more B-29s before drawing off, ahead of the arrival of a wave of protective US fighters.
    It was Hanebury’s fourth kill, and second as a Superfort gunner, and the previous evening’s celebrations, although muted by the loss of two crews, were still heavy enough to have left a mark.
    Not so much of a mark that he and the men of ‘Dimples 98’ were not ready and raring to go.
    “Ten-hut!”
    The assembled crews sprang to their feet as the door at the end of the Quonset hut flew open, and the progress of their unit commander and S-2 were announced by the sharp sound of feet marching in unison.
    The two officers reached the end of the briefing hut and came to a position of parade rest.
    “Be seated.”
    The crews dropped into their chairs in eager anticipation, recognising their own excitement mirrored in the CO’s face.
    “Special mission 17 is go. We go the day aft…”
    The whistles and yells drowned out the rest of