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"Did you look around the base of the temple? Maybe he fell--"

"I sent four of the archaeology students down to search They found no sign of the Doc"

"Could any of the students have moved him?"

"I checked They're all as bewildered as we are"

"Dead bodies do not get up and walk off," said Pitt flatly

Rodgers looked around the outside of the te "It looks as if this one did"

The air conditioner whirred and circulated cool dry air inside the long y project's headquarters in Chachapoya And the ued than the uidly while in and tonic But he sat up in full wakefulness almost instantly when a voice came over the radio speaker mounted on a wall behind the driver's compartment

"Saint John calling Saint Peter" The voice ca Saint Peter Are you there?"

Chaco moved quickly across the interior of the plush motor home and pressed the trans"

"Turn on the recorder I don't have time to repeat myself or explain the situation in detail"

Chaco acknowledged and switched on a cassette recorder "Ready to receive"

"Amaru and his folloere overpowered and taken prisoner They are now being held under guard by the archaeologists Amaru was shot and may be badly wounded"

Chaco's face suddenly turned grim "How is this possible?"

"One of the men from NUMA, who responded to your distress call, somehow escaped from the sinkhole and pursued Aed to subdue our overpaid cutthroats one by one"

"What sort of devil could do all this?"