Sample
from The Dog Robbers
Yokosuka Bay rippled as a long pole with a boat
hook on the end rose from the murky waters and stood, periscope-like, a foot
away from the cruiser’s darkened steel hull. The head and shoulders of a
scuba diver followed, one neoprene-clad arm holding up the pole. After a few
seconds, the diver hooked the boat hook over the cruiser’s scupper, then
paused again, clinging to the pole, letting the ripples subside, listening.
Satisfied, the diver secured the scuba
apparatus and shrugged it off. Once harness, tank, mask, and fins were hooked
to a lanyard attached to the pole’s butt end, they were lowered into the bay,
out of sight. Then, hand over hand, the diver climbed the pole. Pausing at
the scupper, the diver looked both ways, cocked a head to listen, then rolled
onto the deck and scurried into a nearby darkened passageway. A trail of wet
footprints was all that marked the intruder’s path.
The diver knew where to go: down a short
passageway to the flag wardroom, amidships on the main deck, starboard side.
The wardroom’s metal door was unlocked, as expected. Once inside, light from
the pier filtering in through four curtained portholes made navigation easy.
The diver turned aft, avoided the long dining table, and stopped at the door
to the cabin belonging to Vice Admiral Bruce Ingram, Commander, U.S. Seventh
Fleet. That door too was unlocked. No matter, the diver carried a tool to
jimmy the lock if that had been necessary. In less than a minute, the diver
was at the admiral’s bedside writing desk, using a tiny flashlight to sift
through the still-unopened personal mail stacked in one of the nooks. Tiny
rivulets of seawater dribbled onto the carpeting.
“Hah,” the diver whispered when the right
envelope finally appeared.
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