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Troika
Hersch L. Zitt
Ephod Press
Berkeley, CA
2005
Copyright © 2005 Hersch L. Zitt
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Dedication
For Ruth, my ever patient wife.
In memory of
ERIC KLEIN
who first gave me the idea for TROIKA
Acknowledgments:
To my son, Joseph Samuel Zitt.
To my editor, Claudia Crowley
Troika
Naval Weapons Station,
Earle, Colts Neck, New Jersey
29 October
0500 Hours
A steady, soaking rain was falling as the eighteen wheeler backed slowly into the loading dock. With short, skillful maneuvers, the driver, Alex Burr, jockeyed into the assigned cargo bay. The crew loaded several gray canisters. The crew chief flipped up the required yellow and black insignia. The contents were radioactive.
Burr returned, checked his load, wrote "16" on the bill of lading, climbed into the cab, swung left and continued on to the exit road where a guard waved him out of the compound.
The truck moved out onto the access road parallel to the New Jersey Garden State Parkway. The windshield wipers oscillated rapidly to clear the now heavy rain that obscured hi