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    Underwater Restorations: A Sunken City Capers Novelette: Sunken City Capers, #0
    Underwater Restorations: A Sunken City Capers Novelette: Sunken City Capers, #0
    Underwater Restorations: A Sunken City Capers Novelette: Sunken City Capers, #0
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    Underwater Restorations: A Sunken City Capers Novelette: Sunken City Capers, #0

    By Jeffrey A. Ballard

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    High-tech Heist.


    "Ballard delivers an engaging story with good technique ..."
    —Tangent Online

    Betrayal. On the run.

    Flushed out from the criminal underworld of pilfering underwater graves, Isa must gamble to survive. Cut off from the world she knows, and in the open without a citizen's chip, she attempts the desperate. Among the stakes gambled: another man's life—the only decent one she knows.

    In this fast-paced, action-filled science fiction heist adventure, Jeffrey A. Ballard, pens an exciting tale where loyalty could get you killed … or worse, arrested.

    Sunken City Capers novel series:
    - The Solid-State Shuffle, Book 1
    - The Elgin Deceptions, Book 2
    - Leverage, Book 3
    - Book 4 to be announced soon!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNew Rochester Publishing
    Release dateApr 30, 2015
    ISBN9781941557228
    Underwater Restorations: A Sunken City Capers Novelette: Sunken City Capers, #0

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      Underwater Restorations - Jeffrey A. Ballard

      Also by Jeffrey A. Ballard

      Sunken City Capers

      Underwater Restorations: A Sunken City Capers Novelette

      The Solid-State Shuffle

      The Elgin Deceptions

      Leverage

      The Brummie Con

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      THIS IS MY FAVORITE PART, thirty feet above the ocean, falling at a hundred and ninety miles an hour. Close enough to see our reflections hurtling to meet us. It's the second just before the agitator lasers ahead to break the surface tension that's the sweetest. When all the adrenaline of a ten-thousand-foot free-fall culminates in a terrifying second of, Oh, shit.

      A hundred things could go wrong. The agitator may not move enough water out of the way. The air pocket could collapse before entry. The subroutine that mixes water and air for the controlled deceleration may miscalculate and flatten me into a shark pancake. Almost a hundred different ways to die in under a tenth of a second. I love it.

      Then it passes and we're down fifty feet underwater and descending. Only when the static of the comm comes online through my earpiece, trying to make a connection, do I remember to breathe. The rush of the entry fades into focus on the job at hand.

      Another fifty feet later, we stand on an exit ramp from I-95 and the rookie, Winn, brings up the holo-map with incomplete sonar data overlaid. Hurricane Gretchen passed through last night and did us the favor of muddying up the waters, an expected development—the Feds are just as blind.

      Lovers, you're all clear. I can hear the smirk in Puo's voice, ten thousand feet above in the Seagull and driving north in the South Florida Memorial Airway.

      We descended four miles too far to the east. Winn points at the blinking dot on the holo-map. I think we'll need to jetflow. Listen, about last night—

      The flow jets will make too much noise; the squiddies are tuned to it. Its only purpose is to outrun the damn things. No, we'll have to jump, skip, and hop to the site. It's quieter and doesn't disturb the water as much. Adjust your buoyancy in rhythm to your jumps and try to keep up. I initiate my jump subroutine and leap.

      Puo. That nosy punk's always got to stir the pot. I land forty feet away at an intersection and wait. Let Winn struggle; I'll send over the subroutine after he falls several times. It's just a fling. My father always said we Schmidts think with our cocks. Well, in my case, insert the female equivalent.

      Winn is still just standing there. Rookie, what's taking you so long? Let's move.

      I'm writing a subroutine to automatically manage the buoyancy adjustments. I can transmit it to you when I'm done.

      That's very kind of you, Rookie, Puo breaks in. Don't you think that's nice, Isa?

      Puo— He is so going to pay for this. —focus on our pickup. Rookie, nice thought, here you go. I don't have time to wait for you to flounder through it. I transmit the subroutine.

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