![]() He liked to see some of the young talent the Agency was producing. She'd make a great rodeo rider, and he'd be a pretty good town marshal west of the Pecos, the DCI said. In any case, the kidnappings had been expertly done, and nobody here would talk to anybody about it, would they? What if the lawyers they worked for called the police? Letters of resignation had been sent, with the signatures expertly forged, and plausible explanations for the supposed event included in the text of the letters. Three of the women subjects were that, which was mildly troubling to Dr. Since business was off and he stood to make more in the deal than he earned in a week, he went along with the deal. They implied that they were investigating the Mafia, which was not implausible given the nearness to the gambling casinos. Reasoning that the obvious was often the most innocuous, they had flashed a wad of bills and their NUMA IDs and persuaded the owner of the parasail and the winch boat to spare his equipment for a few hours. ![]() They had assumed the compound would be well guarded and that there would be no point sneaking around. I guess Dieter is smarter than we thought he was, Gamay said begrudgingly. Picture your gut chakra opening in a slow-motion explosion of sausage-casing small intestine. ![]() This way, when he shows up to work one morning and pumps a round into his nagging, ineffectual, petty, whining, butt-sucking, candy-ass boss, that one round will split along the filed grooves and spread open the way a dumdum bullet flowers inside you to blow a bushel load of your stinking guts out through your spine. The guy, I say, is probably at home every night with a little rattail file, filing a cross into the tip of every one of his rounds. Behind her, the skies of Miami glowed a burnished orange from the sodium anticrime lights. The Nordic Princess was out to sea, rocking ever so lightly in the northeast chop. By lunchtime, they were less than halfway through the passenger list without getting to the crewmembers. Giordino worked with the team of inspectors, searching for explosives or signs of damaged equipment, while Pitt and Kelly cooperated with the purser in matching up the passengers with their names and staterooms. ![]() As soon as the lecture was over, a series of gongs rang and the passengers were directed to their evacuation pod stations. There were six black families on board, but none of the men remotely resembled Omo Kanai. Kelly sat on one side of the theater in the front while Pitt sat on the other side near the rear. The boat was still in the channel, heading toward the open blue-green sea off Florida, when all passengers were asked to be seated in the theater, where First Officer Paul Conrad lectured on the operation of the submarine cruise boat and explained the evacuation system. Need you?' said Locke who could need this wreck of a man? She bathed under a sun of nonsenses, while outside a soft rain began. The future, if there was to be one, was ignored here, where there was only tranquility. The sights she had witnessed in Mamoulian's head were dismissed to the dim past from which they'd come. Left alone, Carys found forgetfulness very quickly. Bloody Sharpe was hunting his enemies, and three, maybe four, were already dead. Not that Hakeswill had ever believed it was. It had to be Lowry or Kendrick, for this was about where he had left the two privates, and if they were dead, or even if only one of them was dead, then it meant that Captain Torrance's death had been no lovers' tiff. Not even Siglen was going to spoil her elation.
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