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"I told you I would make you suffer as you made me," Amaru said ominously

Pitt studied the evil face with a strangely paralyzed intensity He didn't need a football coach to diagrain the scheht after he had stepped out of the helicopter He htly sideways and inconspicuously began to hyperventilate

"If you are the one who harresswoman Smith, you will die as surely as you stand there with that stupid look on your face"

Sarason laughed "No, no You, Mr Pitt, are not going to kill anybody"

"Neither are you Even in Mexico you'd hang if there was a witness to your executions"

"I'd be the first to adly "But itness are you talking about?" He paused to sweep an arm around the empty sea "As you can see, the nearest land is empty desert alht is our fishing boat standing off the starboard bow"

Pitt tilted his head up and stared at the wheelhouse "What about the ferryboat's pilot?"

All the heads turned as one, all that is except Gunn's He nodded unobserved at Pitt and then raised a hand, pointing at the empty pilothouse "Hide, Pedro!" he cried loudly "Run and hide"

Three seconds were all Pitt needed Three seconds to run four steps and leap over the railing into the sea

Two of the guards caught the sudden e of their vision, whirled and fired one quick burst froh, and they fired late Pitt had struck the water and vanished into the murky depths

Pitt hit the water stroking and kicking with the fervor of a possessed dees would have been impressed, he must have set a neorld record for the underwater dash The water arm but the visibility below the surface was less than ain fronified by the density of the water and sounded like an artillery barrage to Pitt's ears

The bullets struck and penetrated the sea with the unlikely sound of a zipper being closed Pitt leveled out when his hands scoured the botto during his US Air Force days that a bullet's velocity was spent after traveling a h water Beyond that depth, it sank harmlessly to the seafloor

When the light above the surface went dark, he knew he had passed under the port side of the Alhah tide and the ferryboat was now riding twoa s on a course astern that he hoped would bring hi paddlewheels

His oxygen intake was nearly exhausted, and he began to see a darkening fuzziness creeping around the borders of his vision, when the shadow of the ferry abruptly ended and he could see a bright surface again

He broke into air 2 meters (65 feet) abaft of the sheltered interior of the starboard paddlewheel