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The Doomsday Conspiracy
Sidney Sheldon
OPERATION DOOMSDAY… ACTIVATE…Commander Robert Bellamy of US Naval Intelligence is dispatched on a top secret mission. A weather balloon carrying sensitive military information has crashed in Switzerland. Bellamy must locate the ten witnesses to the incident so that they can be sworn to secrecy.But as he conducts his search Bellamy begins to suspect that he, too, is being hunted, by an unknown lethal force… that what he was told about the balloon was only one part of an almost unbelievable happening..
Sidney Sheldon
The Doomsday Conspiracy
This is for Jerry Davis
Table of Contents
Cover Page (#u0b485b03-9357-501c-8194-dcc05eea4f7c)
Title Page (#u4d521352-2aa0-56ba-abb7-f90dc198e117)
Dedication (#u2c9243b3-86b1-54fb-9a3e-c2073965859d)
Prologue (#u4d013fb4-39de-53d2-afd2-45ee143c0e0a)
PART ONE THE HUNTER (#ucfed8737-24f0-5d45-b9b0-dffc660d4962)
Chapter One (#u81182fd6-45a6-56ed-96d5-a0b8e4a26cf3)
Chapter Two (#ua7be4292-102f-53f3-af78-d8e07a46e36d)
Chapter Three (#u1c254a84-afd8-5deb-ac37-37e8e856eead)
Chapter Four (#u91ed6848-bab7-5020-b262-3d60baf5abde)
Chapter Five (#ucde72d8b-e72a-5f23-b220-36185bcc0e17)
Chapter Six (#u9a94d009-1f7f-59a8-a358-9fa81bd26c6d)
Chapter Seven (#u07fc1e86-800e-50c8-b8b2-aaaa9fed9b2d)
Chapter Eight (#u07a55cbd-6b1a-5248-93d6-168431ca996b)
Chapter Nine (#u8bfb9a06-2d22-56c4-b52e-aa9fd804cf35)
Chapter Ten (#u37bde39c-b783-5fac-96a1-64f8ebf38358)
Chapter Eleven (#uaa315f2c-ba2b-59b7-8411-a3b83de51e5b)
Chapter Twelve (#u7af1ddf4-4659-5aa0-b97a-c6e33a2679ec)
Chapter Thirteen (#uc07c3bed-6841-580f-b05c-2bffd476491b)
Chapter Fourteen (#u3080106b-3eaa-5503-aa33-bf9993c3321c)
Chapter Fifteen (#u79e4475b-5948-51bc-bd63-3d66e5a26e88)
Chapter Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Eighteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Nineteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty-one (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty-two (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty-three (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty-four (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty-five (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty-six (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty-seven (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty-eight (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty-nine (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Thirty (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Thirty-one (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Thirty-two (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Thirty-three (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Thirty-four (#litres_trial_promo)
PART TWO THE HUNTED (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Thirty-five (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Thirty-six (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Thirty-seven (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Thirty-eight (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Thirty-nine (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Forty (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Forty-one (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Forty-two (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Forty-three (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Forty-four (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Forty-five (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Forty-six (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Forty-seven (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Forty-eight (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Forty-nine (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Fifty (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Fifty-one (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Fifty-two (#litres_trial_promo)
Author’s Note (#litres_trial_promo)
Acknowledgment (#litres_trial_promo)
Books by Sidney Sheldon (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)
Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)
Prologue (#ulink_3e94675b-161f-5539-8417-15d1d0b0162a)
Uetendorf, Switzerland
Sunday, October 14, 1500 Hours
The witnesses standing at the edge of the field were staring in horrified silence, too stunned to speak. The scene that lay before them was grotesque, a primeval nightmare dredged up from some deep, dark depths of primitive man’s collective unconscious. Each witness had a different reaction. One fainted. A second one vomited. A woman was shaking uncontrollably. Another one thought: I’m going to have a heart attack! The elderly priest clutched his beads and crossed himself. Help me, Father. Help us all. Protect us against this evil incarnate. We have finally seen the face of Satan. It is the end of the world. Judgment Day has come.
Armageddon is here … Armageddon … Armageddon …
PART ONE THE HUNTER (#ulink_1ff83912-7c0a-5a92-8e4e-5981acbe1169)
Sunday, October 14, 2100 Hours
FLASH MESSAGE
TOP SECRET ULTRA
NSA TO DEPUTY DIRECTOR COMSEC
EYES ONLY
SUBJECT: OPERATION DOOMSDAY
MESSAGE: ACTIVATE
NOTIFY NORAD, CIRVIS, GEPAN, DIS, GHG, VSAF, INS.
END OF MESSAGE
Sunday, October 14, 2115 Hours
FLASH MESSAGE
TOP SECRET ULTRA
NSA TO DEPUTY DIRECTOR—
NAVAL INTELLIGENCE 17TH DISTRICT
EYES ONLY
SUBJECT: COMMANDER ROBERT BELLAMY
ARRANGE TEMPORARY TRANSFER THIS AGENCY, EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY.
YOUR CONCURRENCE IN THE ABOVE IS ASSUMED.
END OF MESSAGE
Chapter One (#ulink_990c66d5-0d45-5fd7-a2f7-d0bce1c0947d)
DAY ONE
Monday, October 15
He was back in the crowded hospital ward at Cu Chi Base in Vietnam and Susan was leaning over his bed, lovely in her crisp white nurse’s uniform, whispering, “Wake up, sailor. You don’t want to die.”
And when he heard the magic of her voice, he could almost forget his pain. She was murmuring something else in his ear, but a loud bell was ringing, and he could not hear her clearly. He reached up to pull her closer, and his hands clutched empty air.
