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    Carbon 12
    Carbon 12
    Carbon 12
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    Carbon 12

    By D. E. Harrison

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    Someone is stealing diamonds, thousands of carets and returning most of them for a very small finder’s fee. No diamond merchants are pressing charges. A huge purchase was made and then 80% were sold at a loss but the rest were kept. Inspector Strong in a Chief’s meeting noted, “Someone is inspecting the diamonds and maybe keeping what they want.” Robbery is all over this, but it leads no place.
    Someone tries to recycle an empty whiskey bottle. The bottle owner stabs several people trying to get his bottle back and is killed in self-defense. The Inspector closes the case. The Inspector goes down to see the bottle. He finds a three-caret clear diamond in it. The diamond has no marks on it.
    In the Outback, a complete city is built to dig for diamonds. Almost 50% of these they keep. The rest they sell. The mine runs out quickly, and they leave everything there.
    Someone is trying to build a super-fast computer. They have invested several hundreds of millions in the project. The first test is in red China, and for what purpose? Can they predict weather? If so at what cost?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherD. E. Harrison
    Release dateOct 2, 2018
    ISBN9780463715314
    Carbon 12
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    D. E. Harrison

    I am trained as a theoretical mathematician. I am an emeritus member of the American Mathematical Society for fifty odd years. I have lived in Seattle since 1967. I starting writing fiction after writing a family history.

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      Carbon 12 - D. E. Harrison

      Carbon 12

      By D. E. Harrison

      Copyright 2015 by D. E. Harrison

      Smashwords Edition

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1 Back Ground

      Chapter 2 The Shooting

      Chapter 3 Several Months Earlier

      Chapter 4. Processing the Carrot Patch Diamonds

      Chapter 5 Opening the Diamond Claim

      Chapter 6 Processing the Diamonds

      Chapter 7 Cooperation and Coordination

      Chapter 8 Input and Output from Electron to Photon to Electron

      Chapter 9 The Photon Storage

      Chapter 10 Progress Report

      Chapter 11 Weather Update.

      Chapter 12 What to Run Next on the Computer

      Chapter 13 American Forecasting

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      Chapter 1 Back Ground

      It is raining in the one city where very few people even own an umbrella, no less use it. But a few people will carry one in January; where it may rain 33-days straight in January. The ducks were picked up by the slugs in their boat.

      The weather in Seattle has a few local descriptions that will mean something only to the locals. Such as, ‘occasional sun breaks’ means it will have intermittent showers. The ‘filtered sun’ means a continual mist will be falling. Partly cloudy means less than 1/4 of an inch of rain.

      The most typical temperatures in the winter are 36 and 45 degrees, take your pick for day or night.

      The homicide Division is having a slowdown of cases. The rain caused a high point of activity in the third rainy month. It has slowed to a crawl, so it is time to clean up all the paper work. The crime rate will pick up for the first two or three weeks of nice weather. That really means the temperature may reach 68 to 70 Degrees. Then the summer will have fewer cases.

      Homicide Detective Rage seldom watches TV, but she is home on time which is a rather rare event.

      She hears, This is the second diamond robbery this week. This reporter has researched the diamond trade and I have seen a minor increase in the cost of diamonds; even after adjusting for the normal fluctuations. These two robberies have removed about 12,500 carets of diamonds from the market. I have learned that the insurance companies may have been contacted about buying back the diamonds; this makes little sense as to why they are still in town. Diamonds are still like money, almost. Even the laser etched diamonds are still easy to sale off shore. It might be that the robbers want some easy money with no risk. The insurance company could ransom back the diamonds and press no charges. They would recover them for a fraction of the cost to replace them.

      The rookie Detective Janett Rage has been on the police force for almost eight years. She is bright, aggressive, and dedicated to the job. She takes a fair amount of ribbing about her last name and the color of her hair. It usually goes on until they see her empty a clip of sixteen rounds at thirty yards into a 3-inch circle. If that is not enough, she will crack a few ribs and she will do it again in the gym.

      In her sixth year on the force, she completed the Detective training course at the academy. She finished in second place, the other woman there finished twelfth out of the fifteen total candidates. In such a large metropolitan police force, her new duty assignment could have been one of many. She did not know until Monday after graduation her exact assignment.

      Detective Rage has been with Inspector Strong for almost three years. He was not happy when she was assigned to his unit. He still remembers how that went.

      The Assistant Chief of Detectives says, "Have a seat Earl. I have been looking over your caseload. Earl, the Chief gave the Chief of Detectives a personnel jacket and told him, he has a new

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