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“Would you believe we’re stuck in the iantweird”
“You don’t know the half of it, my friend You don’t know the half of it”
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DR Julia Huxley, the Oregon’s eneration station aboard the Robinson R44 so by the tihter’s deck Sloane Macintyre was already hooked up to an IV that was flooding her veins with painkillers, antibiotics, and saline solution for her dehydration Julia had stripped away her sodden clothes and wrapped her in a therunshot wound as best she could with the kit she’d brought, but was eager to tend her properly
Two orderlies aiting with a gurney when the retractable helipad was lowered into the hold and Sloane hisked to sick bay, an infirmary that rivaled a metropolitan level-one trauma cent
er
Hux’s treatment of Juan had been a quick pronounce sports drink, and a couple aspirin At least Max was in the hangar with one of Cabrillo’s spare legs
Juan dropped onto a work bench to unseat his on had slowed her e Adams to land the helicopter, and now, as he accepted the artificial liin to accelerate again
He angrily yanked down his pants cuff and started walking quickly, calling over his shoulder, “Senior staff in the boardroom in fifteen minutes”
His team was assembled by the time he finished a quick shower and a shave that left his face raw froht razor he used Maurice had prepared a coffee service and had a stea cup at the head of the cherry conference table for him The armored covers for the boardroohtly lit, contrasting sharply with the dark look of the men and women seated around him
Juan took a sip of his coffee and bluntly said, “Okay, what the hell happened?”
As chief intelligence officer, Linda Ross took point She hastily sed amembers of the Kinshasa police raided a house outside the city, believing it was a drug distribution center They made several arrests and found a cache of ars They also found a heap of docuolese Army of Revolution”
“The guy that bought our weapons,” Mark Murphy reminded unnecessarily He didn’t look up from his work on the laptop Juan had taken froenerator
Linda continued “It turns out that Maka sales to further finance his activities, which isn’t a big stretch What caught the police off guard was how Makaed to use bribery to infiltrate the upper echelons of the govern Benjamin Isaka in the Defense Ministry For fifty thousand Euros a year paid into a Swiss bank account, Isaka fed inforovernment’s attempts to locate his secret base of operations He continually tipped off the rebel leader so Makaovernment troops”
Max was seated at the opposite end of the burnished table, his bulldog face more dour than normal “Maka to be ar set up Isaka told him about how the weapons had been fitted with radio direction tags His first step after we made our escape was to diss into the river”