You're not very communicative. Can I speak to Maggie?"She heard me gasp as Maggie's tongue went around Beau's head. "I guess Maggie can't come to the ...hone. She's got such good manners, never talks with her mouth full. Well, tell her I can wait, I already snacked, and not too ruin her appetite." A laugh. "Bye, honey." Click.I was too far gone to realize, worry, enjoy, fantasize or whatever, about Linda mentioning that she had blown another man, possibly minutes before calling me to discuss. "Somebody's hurting her!"He tried to pull free and go rescue Béla."It's okay, li'l buddy," Pat said, holding on tight, "it's what she does. Right, Mike?"Mike nodded agreement."But she's in there alone! With all those men..." Sean cried, then suddenly stopped, realizing his brothers were right.'It's what she does... 'He wondered if the fascinating, fragile woman he'd met and talked to and made love to for the last hour or so was real, or just an illusion. She actually looked younger that he was.. ”“I’m on the London Eye.”“What? Why?”“Fancied a day in London. Hey, Bobby, you’ll never guess who I met on the train.”“Who?”“Do you remember that brunette in Ladz a couple of weeks ago that looked a bit like Buffy the Vampire Slayer?”“I think so. Nice tits, if I remember. But then, don’t they always?”“Sure. Well, she opposite me on the way up here.”“You’re joking? You sure it was her?”“Positive. I knew I’d seen her before, but couldn’t place her. So I asked her when we got in. She told me who. Darwin was Australia's London Blitz.That and American industry and Guadalcanal. The halt of Nip aggression at New Guinea and the loss of face at the 'canal saved the entire continent.Sanderson wanted to see with his own eyes what the High Command had done. The abandoned bases around Darwin had been pretty much swallowed by urban sprawl ... the north coast would present untold evidence of... 'We need the Men ... American industry can speedily replace the tools. The public doesn't need to.