For every wind farm he developed with public fanfare, there were a half dozen coal mines he operated, his actual ownership buried in a laundry list of corporate subsidies. The public perception of him as an environmental prophet was just a cleverly designed façade, he came to learn, disguising Goyette’s true nature as a money-hungry megalomaniac. It wasn’t until he was appointed natural resources minister that he saw the other side of Goyette. With ambition in his heart and a wife and four children to support on a civil servant’s salary, he blindly took the cash, convincing himself that the policies he promoted for Goyette were just.
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Campaign contributions progressed to jet rides and free vacations, ultimately leading to outright cash bribes. The political campaign contributions grew as Jameson’s career advanced, and somewhere along the way he had foolishly crossed the line. In Goyette, he had seemingly found a wealthy benefactor who shared a progressive vision for the country. The two had met at a hockey game, when Jameson was making his first bid for a seat in Parliament. He could never recall the exact day that he woke up and realized that Goyette had owned him. Jameson grimaced at the knowledge that corruption flourished within the department well beyond his own dirty hands. And as the sailors all knew, left unchecked, scurvy could eventually prove fatal. Combined with a shortage of fresh meat, the disease had left no man untouched. Though casks of lemon juice had been carried aboard and rationed regularly to all the crew, the juice had lost its efficacy over time. Fitzjames had already lost two of his own teeth to the disease, a vitamin C deficiency that causes spongy gums and bleeding scalp. Pallid and emaciated, most of the men fought the advanced ravages of scurvy. Like his own men, the crew of the Terror were frightful souls to look at. Savoring the liquor as it warmed his belly, the captain noticed a beehive of activity in the dim confines, with crewmen shouting and shoving stores about the main passageway. A steward passed around shots of brandy while the men shook the ice from their clothes and warmed their hands by the cookstove. A midshipman approached and led Fitzjames and his men down the main hatch and into the galley. But no one survived from that doomed mission, captain and crew perished to a man - and if Pitt and his colleague Al Giordino aren’t careful, the very same fate may await them.įitzjames boarded the ship, where he was surprised to see several crewmen scurrying about the ice-covered deck. Their only real clue might just be a mysterious silvery mineral traced to a long-ago expedition in search of the fabled Northwest Passage. and Summer, have reason to believe there’s a connection here somewhere, but they also know they have very little time to find it before events escalate out of control.
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A potential breakthrough discovery to reverse global warming… a series of unexplained sudden deaths in British Columbia… a rash of international incidents between the United States and one of its closest allies that threatens to erupt into an actual shooting war… NUMA director Dirk Pitt and his children, Dirk.