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“All right Show ”

A different exterior view came on the screen, this one to the Portland’s stern It showed a huge freighter being loaded with timber and coffee bou

nd for France

“That ship looks brand-new”

“It is,” Farouk said “That’s why the owners are drowning in debt They can’t break the lease on it, and they’re bleeding red ink They say the only way they can cover their losses is for the ship to sink and Lloyd’s of London to pay the claim”

Tate held up his fingers and played the world’s smallest violin “Cry me a river They’ll pay our normal cut?”

“Yes”

“Then let’s make this a twofer”

“How do you mean?”

“Our old buddy Juan Cabrillo had a bad day yesterday We want to continue his misery, don’t we?”

Heads all over the op center nodded

“Then we’ll ood video of the Portland doing it I got word that the crew of the Mantícora was found in thefor theKansas City Now it’s ti her for another atrocity”

Once she was blaon would become a pariah to the United States, and so would her captain Nobody in the CIA knew that she had a doppelgänger, an exact twin, down to her weapons systeines

Tate’s extensive plans were finally paying off, plans he’d developed during years of torture and solitary confinement Like everyone else aboard the Portland, he wanted his revenge on Juan Cabrillo, the person responsible for all their collective misery

But Tate wasn’t going to kill his former partner in the CIA That would be too si First, Tate would ruin his reputation Then he would kill Cabrillo’s crew, sink his ship, and leave him to rot in a Third World prison for the rest of his life with the knowledge that he’d lost everything he held dear