The jazz played from the gramophone in the corner of the room, a lonely saxophone weaving through smoke and amber light. Jonathan Whitmore sat at his desk in the Waldorf-Astoria's diplomatic suite, staring at the telegram on his blotter.
"ACCEPTED FOR PROMETHEUS PROGRAM. REPORT TO NAVY DEPARTMENT IMMEDIATELY." He picked up his fountain pen and signed his name with the steady hand of a man who had made his decision long before the ink touched paper. Richard Whitmore—West Point class of 1912, decorated captain in the Great War, survivor of the Aden incident that had taken Callahan and forty-seven other souls. David Callahan. His...
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