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Merlin."[Pg 170]

Chen-Wong looked at him curiously. "I hope so. I can't think of anything
else that can stop this business."

Tom Brangwyn was in the room when he turned from the screen.

"We searched Leibert's?Shanlee's?rooms," he said. "We found a bomb."

"What kind of a bomb?"

"Vest-pocket thermonuclear. He seems to have gotten the fissionables by
taking apart a couple of light tactical missiles; the whole thing's
packed inside a hundred-pound power-cartridge case. It was in a
traveling-bag under his bed. And you know how it was to be fired? With a
regular 40-mm flare-pistol, welded into the end of the bomb. The
flare-powder had been taken out of the cartridge, and it had been