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Hooking up with Thoot him out of LA before the police closed in on his auto-theft business again He had a huge h

ouse facing the ocean just down the road fro women for his bed from the transient population of Responsivists who came to Greece on retreat Part of him even believed that there were too damned arbage about alien n belief better than the most devout

As for Thom and Heidi’s master plan, what did he care about a bunch of rich people on cruise ships?

It was only around Kovac that his façade cracked The big Serb was a psychopath, plain and siround but could only assu he’d read about in Yugoslavia back in the late nineties The rescue of Kyle Hanley had been a disaster, but Martell felt he could handle the fallout He didn’t need Kovac watching over his shoulder and reporting every little detail back to Thom and Heidi He aded, but he’d said nothing substantive before turning on the ja device It was ain his creepy lapdog

Kovac held a finger to his fleshy lips in a shushing gesture before Martell could speak When Kovac reached the desk, he shut off the jammer, then took a small piece of electronics from the inside pocket of his black leather jacket He syste the electronic readout as he moved the device over bookshelves, furniture, and the carpet Satisfied, he slipped it back into his pocket

“So there weren’t any—”

The weight of Kovac’s stare pressed Gil Martell farther into his chair

Kovac upended the desk lamp and peeled the tiny eavesdropper from the base He wasn’t fanized its sophistication Because the bug was so small, he knew that somewhere within a mile or so of the co heard to a circling satellite Searching for it would be futile

“End trans his best tobetween his thick fingernails, grinding it until it was as fine as particles of sand He finally looked to Martell “Now you may speak”

“Was that the only one?”

Kovac didn’t bother answering such an inane question “I will need to sweep everywhere the intruders penetrated” It would be tedious but necessary “Have the guards draw up a map of the possibly infected areas”

“Of course But I can tell you that they only entered my office and the dorm”

Feeling his head throb at Martell’s utter stupidity, Kovac had to physically callish was heavily accented but clear “They had to breach the peri and then s along the paths, thrown them into bushes, stuck them to trees, and even left some on top of the walls”

“Oh I didn’t understand”

Kovac gave hiht You don’t understand “Was there anything on your co mission?”