Текст книги "Orbit"

Автор книги: John Nance

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There is a moment of silence.

“You said in your text message you had something serious and professional to ask me?” Diana says.

“I do. But first I want to know when I’m going to see you again.”

“I could e-mail you a picture.”

“You know what I mean.”

“I get a lot of offers, too, Mr. Dawson, thanks to everything you wrote about me.”

She pauses. “How about this evening?”

“Diana, I’m in New York.”

“I know. So am I.”

“ Really? Where?”

“Turn around.”

The grin on her face as Kip realizes she’s standing right behind him is infectious, and he pulls her to him for a hug that becomes a tentative kiss.

“How did you…”

“I followed you from the publisher’s office. You know, jumped in a taxi and had fun saying, ‘Follow that cab!’”

“This is great.”

“But…” she says, holding him back. “I need to know what that important professional question is you were so hot for me to answer.”

“It’s a serious one.”

“Okay.”

“I mean, considering all I went through up there.”

“Uh-huh.”

“And because I’ve been your poster boy ever since.”

“You’ve done very well for us, Kip, especially considering the various ways we tried to kill you.”

“I’m glad you appreciate the danger I was in.”

“I do. Wedo. So, what’s the question?”

He glances skyward, then back to her, eye to eye.

“So, when can I go up again?”

Also by John J. Nance

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Fire Flight

Golden Boy

Skyhook

Turbulence

Headwind

Blackout

The Last Hostage

Medusa’s Child

Pandora’s Clock

Phoenix Rising

Final Approach

Scorpion Strike

What Goes Up

On Shaky Ground

Blind Trust

Splash of Colors

Copyright

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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright (c) 2006 by John J. Nance

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Nance, John J.

Orbit / John J. Nance

1. Space flights—Fiction. 2. Space vehicle accidents—United States—Fiction. 3. Space rescue operations—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3564.A546O73 2006

813’.54—dc22 2005057553

ISBN: 0-7432-8909-9

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