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...Jack Osgood Brookline, Mass...
...David P. Osgood Santa Cruz, Calif...
...drill is to walk to the bomb alone, describing what can be seen. Major Thomas, weary and middleaged, too old for the game, takes shelter behind a pillar in Westminster Abbey as his friend Osgood makes the first approach. Speak ing for the tape recorder that is the hedge against future failure, Osgood reports that the thing is in a neatly made wooden box, as usual. No wires or fuses are visible. The customary message is scrawled across the top: "Bugger the Queen Mum." The I.R.A., of course...
...Osgood returns for a brief conference with Thomas, in which there is nothing useful to say. This was to have been Thomas' turn, but Osgood has taken his place. Thomas is the most experienced bomb-disposal expert in England, called out of retirement when Irish terrorists began stepping up their bombing attacks in Northern Ireland. But he has exhausted his supply of nerve. It is not a matter of steady hands; a watchmaker's skill is not required. All that is necessary is to pry the top off the wooden box and cut a single wire before...
...Osgood makes his second approach to the bomb in Westminster Abbey, calmly reporting his progress. And disappears in a great flash of blue light. When Thomas, who is stunned by the blast, recovers consciousness, he finds that a new and much cleverer bomb maker is working for the terrorists. He must deal with the man because there is no one else...