Exciting action in “Goshawk” and “Stepping on Fingers” on the way to “Criminal Opera (on the way to the printers shortly):”
How Lea escaped from Russian Penal Colony 627 in “Stepping on Fingers:” “However,” the doctor continued, “the Movement’s technicians have apparently developed an electronic device to mimic the global positioning signals that mark out this penal colony. Reduced to the shape of a small necklace, the Movement’s amulet fools the explosive pellet at the base of your skull into thinking it’s always on this island, no matter where you happen to be at the time. I suspect it broadcasts false GPS signals of the sort the pellet expects to receive, or something like that, but then electronics really have never been my strongest suit. We conducted an experiment – tried out the Movement’s device on one of our most disagreeable resident serial killers. We paid a couple of the locals from the mainland to take him on a boat ride, well past the five-kilometer limit, to see how well the Movement’s invention would work. Not a bad guinea pig! Life on this barren rock pile would have been ever so much more pleasant for all of us if the Movement’s countermeasure didn’t work for that particular prisoner. The good news: the Movement’s technology fooled his explosive pellet even though he was taken more than 15 kilometers beyond what is supposed to be the boundary line. Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on your point of view, the new equipment didn’t seem to help the convict swim very well in the long, cold Arctic swells.”
David Garvey and Ani Czarnocki together in the Polish mountains in “Goshawk:” “Lying hip-to-hip in an overgrown field high over the Raba River, oblivious to the world around them, David and Ani jumped when someone started pounding on the hood of his BMW and yelling loudly. Angry shouting. David leaped up and tried to pull on his poplin trousers but lost his balance as one tasseled loafer caught on the way through a narrow cuff and he toppled to the ground with a dull thud. Silently motioning for him to lie there quietly, the back of one index finger to her flaming lips, Ani tiptoed down an almost hidden dirt path leading toward a nearby country road. Just before passing out of the range of David’s admiring eyes, she hiked up her skirt slightly, leaving even less to the imagination.
David strained his ears to hear what was going on. At first, he could only hear a man yelling.but that soon subsided. He couldn’t imagine what Ani had done to shut him up.”
@https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Raba_(river)
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