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he said.
        As he flipped open the book, a sheet of paper fell out.

    Dear Alan and Ellie:

        As you can imagine we don't have much in the way of formal promotional materials yet. But this should give you some idea of the Isla Nublar project. I think it's Very exciting!
        Looking forward to discussing this with you! Hope you can join us!

                                                          Regards,
                                                                John

        "I don't get it," Grant said. He flipped through the sheets. "These are architectural plans." He turned to the top sheet:

    VISITOR CENTER/LODGE                            ISLA NUBLAR RESORT
       
    CLIENT                                    InGen Inc., Palo Alto, Calif.

    ARCHITECTS                          Dunning, Murphy & Associates, New
    York. Richard Murphy, design partner;
    Theodore Chen, senior designer;
    Sheldon James, administrative partner.

    ENGINEERS                                 Harlow, Whitney & Fields, Boston,
    structural; A.T.Misikawa, Osaka,
    mechanical.

    LANDSCAPING                         Shepperton Rogers, London;
                                              A.Ashikiga, H. Ieyasu, Kanazawa.

    ELECTRICAL                          N. V. Kobayashi, Tokyo. A. R
                                              Makasawa, senior consultant.

    COMPUTER C/C                              Integrated Computer Systems, Inc.,
    Cambridge, Mass. Dennis Nedry,
    project supervisor.

        Grant turned to the plans themselves. They were stamped INDUSTRIAL SECRETS DO NOT COPY and CONFIDENTIAL WORK PRODUCT-NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION. Each sheet was numbered, and at the top: "These plans represent the confidential creations of InGen Inc. You must have signed document 112/4A or you risk prosecution."
        "Looks pretty paranoid to me," he said.
        "Maybe there's a reason," Ellie said.
        The next page was a topographical map. It showed Isla Nublar as an inverted teardrop, bulging at the north, tapering at the south. The island was eight miles long, and the map divided it into several large sections.
        The northern section was marked VISITOR AREA and it contained structures marked "Visitor Arrivals," "Visitor Center/Administration," " Power/Desalinization/Support," "Hammond Res.," and "Safari Lodge." Grant could see the outline of a swimming pool, the rectangles of tennis courts, and the round squiggles that represented planting and shrubbery.
        "Looks like a resort, all right," Ellie said.
        There followed detail sheets for the Safari Lodge itself. In the elevation sketches, the lodge looked dramatic: a long low building with a series of pyramid shapes on the roof. But there was little about the other buildings in the visitor area.
        And the rest of the island was even more mysterious. As far as Grant could tell, it was mostly open space. A network of roads, tunnels, and outlying buildings, and a long thin lake that appeared to be man-made, with concrete dams and barriers. But, for the most part, the island was divided into big curving areas with very little development at all. Each area was marked by codes:
        /P/PROC/V/2A, /D/TRIC/L/5(4A+I), /LN/OTHN/C/4(3A+]), and /VV/ HADR/X/ 11(6A + 3 + 3DB).
        "Is there an explanation for the codes?" she said.
        Grant flipped the pages rapidly, but he couldn't find one.
        "Maybe they took it out," she said.
        "I'm telling you," Grant said. "Paranoid." He looked at the big curving divisions, separated from one another by the network of roads. There were only six