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“One more step and she’s dead”

The laundry workers ell aware of as happening but went about their business of transferring clothes, folding sheets, and pressing shirts

“Take it easy,” Mark had backed up a couple of paces “We have a work order for a busted clothes press”

“Show es”

Mark plucked his ID from the front of his overalls Kevin Nixon hadn’t known the exact design the Golden Line used for their eood fake, and he doubted Kovac’s henchht here I’m Mark Murphy”

Kovac suddenly appeared, his bulky body practically filling the doorframe

“What is this?”

“These two clai”

The Serb pulled an autoave the captain express orders that no one other than the laundry workers are to enter this room Who are you?”

“It’s finished, Kovac,” Linda said, her girlish voice icy hard She could tell using his name had startled hi the washingrounded up on ships all over the world The devices are being reht see the outside of a prison again”

“I doubt that verylady Kovac is not my real name” Hethe Yugoslav war It was the name of one of the worst mass murderers to ever come out of the conflict “So you see, I don’t believe I would ever be allowed out of prison”

“Are you totally out of yourto die for this stupid cause of yours? I was aboard the Golden Dawn I sahat your virus does to people You’re a freak”

“If that’s what you think, then you don’t know everything In fact, I think the two of you are bluffing The virus loaded in those”—he swept his hand to indicate themachines—“isn’t the same I used on the Golden Dawn It was created from the same strain, but this one isn’t deadly We are not monsters”

“You just adht hundred people and you say you’re not a monster?”

Kovac actually smiled “Very well Dr Lydell Cooper isn’t amore than a bad fever, only there is one small side effect Sterility In a fewto discover that it can’t have children”