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Code Three, by Rick Raphael
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Title: Code Three
Author: Rick Raphael
Illustrator: Schoenherr
Release Date: August 24, 2006 [EBook #19111]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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Code Three
The cars on high-speed highways must follow each other like sheep. And they need shepherds. The highway police cruiser of tomorrow however must be massively different-- as different as the highways themselves!
by Rick Raphael
Illustrated by Schoenherr
[Illustration]
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[Illustration]
The late afternoon sun hid behind gray banks of snow clouds and a cold wind whipped loose leaves across the drill field in front of the Philadelphia Barracks of the North American Continental Thruway Patrol. There was the feel of snow in the air but the thermometer hovered just at the freezing mark and the clouds cou