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Commander Edwin Rushia, United States Navy, had done many strange and
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dangerous things in his time, but never anything like this.
‘It’s just on the off chance,’ M had told him.

‘If they did it to Wanda’s father, they could just as well do it to Bond,’ Bill
Tanner said. ‘Mind you, with all the delays, we could be too late anyway.’
But he was not too late. They had kitted him out in camouflaged fatigues and
given him an M40A1, the Marines’ sniper’s rifle complete with long-range

sights. This last was only handed over after he had assured them of his skill
with weapons.
Grant had questioned him thoroughly on this point. ‘If you’re not any good,
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you could be risking everything.’

Rushia, who was only a couple of years Grant’s senior, looked at him in a
quiet, reflective manner before saying, ‘Son, when I was a kid in Jewel
Junction, Iowa, I’d go hunting with my old Daddy. When I tell you I could take
the eyes out of a rabbit at fifty yards, maybe you’ll believe me.’ So they also

gave him a 9mm DA 140 automatic, a development of the famous Browning
Highpower.
‘Feel like a guerrilla,’ Rushia commented.
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‘You look like a gorilla,’ Bill Tanner drawled. He had come to like and
respect this slow-speaking, humorous and intelligent man.
They had also provided a pair of small ultra-light binoculars and a compass.
Rushia gathered one or two things that were his own idea and stuffed them
into a backpack, before being handed the main weapon.

When the doctor, whom Franks had dredged up from the depths of the ship,

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