A veteran of four space flights, he's performed 10 spacewalks totaling nearly 68 hours outside a space shuttle or station more than any other NASA astronaut, and he's not done yet.
Anyway, so then our recce team thankfully were no strangers to unstable places, which, let's be honest, is kind of important because we were trying to get to a place between Yemen and Somalia.
We're getting a sense of character, as well, although only in faint strokes. This is early on in the novel (page two, actually) , and Leonard is an old pro.
Harry felt both stupid and annoyed. It was all very well for Ron; he'd been asleep, he hadn't felt how eerie it was down in the lake, surrounded by spear-carrying merpeople who'd looked more than capable of murder.