Stephen and Jack have a cold trail.
a cryptic message -- your friend is your enemy....and your enemy is your friend.....
THE GENERAL hands Stephen the new anti-terrorism Specialist. a flat object.
He studies it.
"Well?"
"It looks like a tile I can hang over my fireplace."
The General tells him, "That is the future." He adds "My grandfather saw the horse and buggy &, he saw the biplane & he saw propellers and jet planes-- and even saw us land on the moon. To the average guy-- this is a floor tile-- but to you it is the highest secret corporate project-- a memory tile -- in computers..... If you cannot telll the difference, the next time you are fired."
Stephen qualifies to fly Navy or Army or military jet planes --all of which are visible from the windows, outside, near the runway.
From Qatar--near Saudi Arabia -- a lands that had Unicorns. The Oryx --which seen from the side looks as if it has one horn, may be the source of the Unicorn story. Qatar-- launches the new radio and TV of modernized Arabia and arrives in the world of the future:
Since the dawn of time, London and England knows Stonehenge. It is the world's first known computer. Started around 2,000 B.C. to 1,700 B.C., it was finished 50 years late and over budget.
Suspense, SF, mystery & romance story --
Neo-X concerns events leading up to the Atomic Age which ends in a treaty. It places the Reader in a time line between before the Cold War ends, leading up to the rise of the computers, then fast forwards to nearly today!
In a surprise gift to the World, the U.S. releases secret ARPA technology -- with no fees to replenish the coffers for R & D for the USA--the real Internet begins!.
TWO STEPS forward, one step backwards, as the saying goes. But this I am told is the old Blanket Stitch Grandma used for hems and it was the strongest stitch she could use.
Daurie meets Steven White who arrives on his first assignment fresh out of retirement from U.S. Air Force. Later he hires her for the Homeland Security new office, but that is getting ahead of this story. In this Prequel, USA is still using mainframes and the PC is not even a product except on a famous SF TV series.
This manuscript contains the first section of chapters only.
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