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"Either way, you'd lose"

Giordino turned and looked at him "Care to let your old buddy in on the rationale?"

"If we hit the jackpot ahead of them, we're supposed to fade into the landscape and let them scoop up the loot"

"Give it up?" Giordino was incredulous

"Those are the orders," said Pitt, resentment written in his eyes

"But why?" deovern criminals rich?"

"So Customs and the FBI can trail and trap them into an indictment and eventual conviction for some pretty heavy crimes"

"I can't say this sort of justice appeals to me Will the taxpayers be notified of the windfall?"

"Probably not, any old the army removed froroup of civilians in the nineteen thirties"

"We live in a sordid, unrelenting world," Giordino observed poetically

Pittsun "Corees"

Giordino took note of the eastern heading "You want to check out the other side of the Gulf on the first run?"

"Only four islands have the geological features si the search on the outer peri back toward the ets"

Giordino grinned "Any sane in in the center"

"Didn't you know?" Pitt cae idiot has all the fun"