References

324 | John W. Warner IV man or woman of your choice, help raise a-a new generation of knowledgeable children not falsely programmed by schools and universities to be mindless sheep, drafted soldiers, or slaves to debt. No more royal authority, no more ignorance of the cosmos; they will learn Atlantean metaphysics, advanced transgenics, responsible […]

Lion,Tiger, Bear | 325 for all of Munich to hide inside; theyve begun an improved Aryan soldier program using retroviruses, but we have few details on that other than its run by General Walter Kruger. The caverns are warm, moist, heavenlycold dry skin heals in minutes. Hothouse pear trees. Oranges. Milk cows graze on grass

326 | John W. Warner IV Bernie got up to look out the window. Hes in love with Bea, always has been, why didnt I pick up on it before? No wonder he wants us in on the deal. This is nuts, insane, but what choice do we have? Sweeten the pot. Okay, okay, lets…lets

Lion, Tiger, Bear | 327 Bea slowly raised a finger. Hol-l-ld on a tick-tick-tick, just how are you going to get this frozen daquiri of a nutjob plan done? she asked of Shafer. Sell everyone in this cavern equal value real estate shares? A holiday home in an ice cave replete with seal fiir furniture?

328 | John W. Warner IV rude outbursts and Das Reich uber alles bravado, he patiently listens and learns in between tirades, unlike his more shallow subordinate officers, new boys Hauptsturmfuhrer Pickelhaube and that nasty little squirrel Otvbs, both regular-issue Waffen SS, eager idiots who would rather be gloriously fighting Cossacks in the Caucuses and

Lion, Tiger, Bear | 329 saved your miserable life; we carried you unconscious for days with fever, we were all sick. Remember the firefight with the Ghurkas that night near the remote temple? British swine, it was all petty jealousy, they wanted our stash of finds, our maps, our unique knowledge, the lazy dogs. Klemp

330 | John W. Warner IV As for Klemp, hes unhappy I tell you, unfulfilled, and as third in command of this base, hes always being pushed around and overworked by an even more ambitious Poppel. They hate one another with zeal behind the scenes he told me. Poppels a sycophantic Party member bar none,

24 Driven to the forts huge zig-zag outer glacis ring to watch, Bea, Alice, and Bernie stood stunned. The tall crane had a sizeable bomb attached on a cable at thirty metersheight. Looks to be around 300 kilos in size. The pointed tip is hardened steel. A bunker-buster, I reckon, said Bernie, shielding the sun

332 | John W. Warner IV the bomb downwards at high speed. It penetrated three meters of stone, the shaped- charge warhead digging deeper. A huge explosion resulted, sending rock and debris everywhere for three hundred meters in all directions. uScheisse on toast, thats one way to do it, cried Bea over the din, dirt

Lion, Tiger, Bear | 333 tectonic plates! A tremor began, then slowly intensified as everyone became nervous. Panicked, Geer clawed his way up a crumbling point bastion. Ernst! The tectonic plates have been affected by the blast. The fort is at the epicenter of the nodal lines, Ernsts Get them up! yelled Schafer, suddenly realizing