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While so all the doors and cli in the trucks to check for intruders, others were sweeping their lights underneath

That er an option And if they uards hot on their trail

Juan looked up and pointed at the top of the truck Linc nodded that he understood

Juan gave the hulking former SEAL a boost so he could reach the lip of the truck’s roof Linc slithered up and over, then leaned down to give Juan a hand With a yank, Juan was on the roof They flattened the

Both of theaan’s et very messy

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IT’S THE VIETNAM MISSION all over again, Eddie thought, while MacD loaded a barbed bolt into his crossbow Except, this ti aboard atrain

Eddie unspooled the other end of the line so that he and Murph could tie it to the bunk fraured out what they were doing, they’d have very little tiuards opened fire

A drill whined outside the door, and Eddie could see the bit bore through the bottoh the hole, and he could hear an acetylene torch fired up

San to belch into the room

“Ti the crossbow He aie hull of the lifeboat and fired

The bolt whizzed away, tethered to the nylon line It embedded in the roof of the lifeboat, and Eddie and Murph pulled the line taut and quickly wrapped it around the bunk fra smoke poured into the room

MacD was the first out He crawled through theand threw a nylon strap over the line He zipped over to the lifeboat and landed on the roof

While Murph did the same, MacD opened the rear door of the lifeboat and went inside Eddie knew that si overboard into the water to cli Gator would have exposed theellan Sun The lifeboat would allow them to put some distance between them and the ship before they boarded the sub

By the time Murph made it to the lifeboat’s roof, the s Eddie held his breath and squeezed through thejust as the door was bashed open, pushing the desk back Voices shouted for theone