Test of Fire (1982) (2014)
“There were only four tables in the cramped metal-walled room. At this time of night, the other three were empty.
Sitting around the table with Alec were Kobol, Ron Jameson, and Bernard Harvey. Jameson was one of the few real military men of the settlement, an expert in weapons and tactics who had been a twenty-year-old soldier on duty at the lunar settlement when the sky burned. He had gone Earthside on every expedition since then, and now served as the commander's chief aide, the man who translated strategy into order to the men. He was tall, utterly calm, flat-stomached, with unflinching gray eyes set in a hawk-nosed, hunter's lean face.
A hard man to panic. Harvey was a round, soft-faced, balding Councilor who would return to the settlement as soon as the expedition touched Earthside.
"But the schedule," Harvey objected, "calls for your leaving three weeks from now." Kobol steepled his fingers in front of his face, hiding his mouth.
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