"The short forces in Frankfurt and Paris haven't weakened," the Governor of the Bank of England said hoarsely. "Our intervention is like trying to ladle water out of the Thames River with a teacup. We've only got forty billion in foreign reserves left—at most it buys us another week."
The Deputy Minister of Defense was staring at another screen, this one showing a satellite image: the English Channel, empty. The United States carrier strike group they'd anticipated was nowhere to be seen—not even a shadow.
"The Pentagon's reply is that they're 'assessing the situation,'" the deputy minister ground out. "Assessing my ass—it's been almost a month!"
