Chapter Four
Tuesday, October 21
8:30 AM
Device Assembly Facility
Nevada Test Site
Paige spotted Mike Waterloo waiting for her outside the barbed-wire gates of the Device Assembly Facility. Dirt berms rose on either side of the thick concrete walls. Two security observation towers, like turrets on a castle, stood out at prime vantage points.
Uncle Mike looked grim-faced as she pulled up in her white Ford pickup, identical to most other government vehicles at the DAF, except for the pine-tree air freshener dangling from her rear-view mirror. Three green NTS security cars had parked beside the barricaded entrance; a Clark County ambulance from the post hospital in nearby Indian Springs AFB had backed up to the glass front door, leaving its red emergency flashers shut off.
Mike Waterlo
