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ght it was better to buy his own ship after one he’d chartered was confiscated”

“Do you knohere I can find this ship?”

Lynch shook his head, then blurted out, “But I knohere the warehouse is I can give you the address” He recited an address, which Van Der Waal entered into his phone “Now, please Please, can I have my dose?”

Brekker studied Lynch, but he couldn’t detect any deceit “Let me make a phone call first Just to check your story”

He pocketed the pills and stepped outside while, behind hio

The hut sat in thesun reflected off the still water Mist rose around Brekker, obscuring the nearest building, another shack a mile away in the distance He took out his phone and called his current employer

Greg Polten answered on the second ring “I’et any info?”

“You ht plans Lynch cracked when I held back the Typhoon pill that was on him e took him, just as you predicted Perhaps it’s ti does”

“That’s not important for you to know,” Polten said, the air of superiority in the A you to retrieve that pill for me and find more of it if you can That’s it”

The tone convinced Brekker that he was holding so far more valuable than the contract he’d taken

“All right” was all he said

“So can you find more of it?”

“Yes, I think we can We’re going to Manila next”

“Good I’ll meet you there”