«The visualizer terrifying dreams» kitabından alıntılar, sayfa 2

All of Sanders’s attempts to take back manual control were useless. It felt as though the plane was being carried by an invisible current within the strange cloud. He had no idea where they were heading or how.

At about three thousand meters, directly ahead, a small dark cloud appeared. But as the plane drew closer, the cloud didn’t shrink; it grew, swelling until it seemed to fill half the sky, threatening to engulf the tiny aircraft caught in its path.Strange things started happening once they crossed the imaginary line connecting the Bahamas and Puerto Rico.

Stephen Kubrick had always taken his assignments seriously and, in most cases, achieved the goals set before him. This time was no exception. Before setting out on his difficult mission, he decided to learn who Pharaoh Amenhotep I really was and what had caused his death.

“Arthur Weigall was the very journalist invited by the English archaeologists Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon to witness their excavations. So he knew everything that went on there. Some of it appeared in print; some was classified, known only to a select few, including my grandmother, his wife, who told me the story when I was still a boy.”

After a short run, the Bonanza lifted from the ground and climbed swiftly. At first, nothing hinted at trouble. The plane gained altitude smoothly, soaring over Bermuda’s long beaches. Through the portholes, the passengers watched the breathtaking scenes of untouched nature and the neat houses along the shore.

Over time, the clientele changed, too. Now the place was visited by a few Russian oligarchs looking to unwind and by officers from various government agencies, everyone from senior army brass to heads of intelligence services. They all knew each other, which made it possible to relax and behave freely within those walls.

He began to suspect the two clouds were somehow connected, and that he’d never escape their reach. Perhaps he would join the ranks of those who had vanished in the Atlantic, swallowed by the Bermuda Triangle

Ruslan Albertovich Filimonov was an active intelligence officer working in Georgia under diplomatic cover. This status allowed him to supervise a broad network of informants across the country. Nothing escaped his close attention, and in his view, the threat of biological warfare emanating from Georgia was quite real.

The king hadn’t even been properly entombed in his royal burial chamber, which at the time was still unfinished. His mummy was hastily placed in a secret cache belonging to his mother in Deir el-Bahri. As for his wife’s remains, the sources said nothing. Most likely, she had been cremated or buried somewhere nearby.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was established only recently, in 2000. Yet in a short time, its capital reached just over fifty billion dollars, an enormous sum. Officially, the foundation proclaimed lofty goals: improving global healthcare, reducing poverty, and expanding educational opportunities in medicine and bioengineering. In reality, however, it pursued a single aim: to develop a global concept for reducing the planet’s population.