and drop on us? On McCafferty's order a noisemaker was ejected into the water. It didn't work, and he fired off another. One minute passed. He'll try to get a magnetic fix on us first.
"Rewind the tape." The duty electrician was grateful to have something to do. The video record of his five-second periscope exposure showed what looked like the remains of a Krivak's topsides.
"Passing three hundred feet. Speed twenty and increasing."
"Scrape the bottom, Joe," McCafferty said. He watched the tape rerun, but that was only to have something for his eyes to do.
"Torpedo in the water port quarter! Torpedo bearing zero-one-five."
"Right fifteen degrees rudder! All ahead flank! Come to new course one-seven-five." McCafferty put the torpedo on his stem. His mind went through the tactical situation automatically. Russian ASW torpedo: sixteen-inch diameter, speed about thirty-six knots, range four miles, runs about nine minutes. We're doing--he looked--twenty-five knots. It's behind us. So if he's a mile behind us ... seven minutes to cover the distance. It can get us. But we're accelerating at ten knots per minute ... No, it can't.
"High-frequency pinging aft! Sounds like a torpedo sonar."
"Settle down, people, I don't think it can catch us." Any Russian ship in the neighborhood can hear us, though.
"Passing through four hundred feet, starting level out."
"Torpedo is closing, sir," the sonar chief reported. "The pings sound a little funny, like--" The sub shook with a powerful explosion aft.
"All ahead one-third, right ten degrees rudder, come to new course two-six-five. What you just heard was their fish hitting the bottom. Sonar, start feeding me data."
The Russians had a new line of sonobuoys north of Chicago, probably too far off to hear them. Bearings to the nearest Soviet ships were steadying down: they were heading right for Chicago.
"Well, that'll keep them off our friends for a while, XO."
"Super."
"Let's go south some more and see if we can get them to pass us. Then we'll remind 'em what they're up against."
ICELAND
If I ever get off this rock alive, Edwards thought, I'll move to Nebraska. He remembered flying over the state many times. It was so agreeably flat. Even the counties were nice neat squares. Not so in Iceland. For all that, it was easier going than they had enjoyed since leaving Keflavik. Edwards and his party kept to the five-hundred-foot elevation line, which kept them at least two miles from the gravel coast road, with mountains at their backs and a good long field of view. Up to now they had seen nothing more than routine activity. They assumed that every vehicle on the move had Russians aboard. That probably was not true, but since the Soviet troops had appropriated so many civilian vehicles there was no way to tell the sheep from the goats. That made them all goats.
"Enjoying your rest, Sarge?" Edwards and his group caught up with Smith. There was a road half a mile farther ahead, the first they'd seen in two days.
"See that mountaintop?" Smith pointed. "A chopper landed on it twenty minutes ago."
"Great." Edwards unfolded his map and sat down. "Hill 1063--that's thirty-five hundred feet."
"Makes a nice lookout point, don't it? You suppose they can see us from there?"
"Ten or eleven miles. Depends, skipper. I figure they're using it to watch the water on both sides. If they have any brains, they'll keep an eye on the rocks, too."
"Any idea how many people they have there?" Edwards asked.
"No way. Maybe nobody--hell, they might have been making a pickup, but I wouldn't bet on it. Maybe a squad, maybe a platoon. You gotta figure they have a good pair of spotting glasses and a radio."
"And how do we get past them?" Edwards asked. The ground was mostly open, with only a few bushes in sight.
"That's a real good question, skipper. Pick our routes carefully, keep low, use dead ground--all the usual stuff. But the map shows a little bay that comes within four miles of them. We can't detour around the far side without running into the main road--can't hardly do that."
"What's the problem?" Sergeant Nichols arrived. Smith explained matters. Edwards got on the radio.
"You just know they're on the hilltop, not strength or weapons, right?" Doghouse asked.
"Correct."
"Damn. We wanted you on that hill." Now there's a surprise, Edwards thought. "No chance you can go up that hill?"
"None. Say again no chance at all. I can think of easier ways to commit suicide, mister. Let me think this one over and get back to you. Okay?"
"Very well, we'll be waiting.
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