title: The Pattern Of A Snowflake
author:  Gregory El Harvey 
description: GREGORY EL HARVEY worked in editing at Temple University School of Medicine for thirty years, retiring in 2010. Following the publication of his first novel, the autobiographical Faces In The Shadows, he began work on the present existential, noir series about the development of a CIA assassination team. He enjoys writing, painting, photography, and making movies about his family and his dogs.
zlib_text: Necroscope 3 - The Source
  
  eVersion 2.0 - see revision notes at end of text
  
  The Source
  
  By Brian Lumley
  
  Book 3 of the Necroscope Series
  
  1
  
  Simonov
  
  The agent lay on a patch of snow in a jumble of white boulders on the eastern
  crest of what had once been the Perchorsk Pass in the mid-Ural'skiy Khrebet.
  He gazed down through nite-lite binoculars on almost two acres of curved,
  silvery-grey surface covering the floor of the ravine. By the light of the
  moon that surface might easily be mistaken for ice, but Mikhail Simonov knew
  that it was no glacier or frozen river; it was a mass of metal some four
  hundred feet long by something less than two hundred wide. Along the irregular
  edges of its length, where its gently curving dome met the rocky walls of the
  gorge, and at both ends, where the arcing metal came up flush against massive
  concrete barriers or dams, the stuff was 'only' six inches thick, but at its
  centre the moulded mass was all of twenty-four inches through. That was what
  had re