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“For now,” Wen Lo said

Fu Manchu bowed his head, folded his hands His evil face began to disintegrate, falling apart into whirling ht and then vanished Moram vanished

Wen Lo rose from his seat and left the now-empty room There was much to do

CHANG REMAINED in his chair, brooding After his attack on the NUMA ship had been rebuffed, he had boarded a fast powerboat that took him to the mainland From there, he booked a private jet that flew hi the credentials of a trade representative and joined the holographic inia warehouse the Triad used as a cover

After aturned to a computer and typed in Kurt Austin’s name The computer took him to the NUMA website and provided hiineer Austin’s photo also was posted

Chang stared at the coral-blue eyes, and the ser He pressed the OFF button and Austin’s face vanished Chang glared at the blank screen

The next time I encounter Kurt Austin, he vowed, I will make him vanish forever

CHAPTER 16

THE BERMUDA COAST GUARD CUTTER HAD RESPONDED quickly to Captain Gannon’s Mayday After a quick look at the bodies and euards-men hurriedly called in the Marine Police Service Within hours, a boat carrying a criation team arrived at the NUMA ship

The six-man CSI team that stepped on board the research vessel’s deck looked like the car valets at a Nassau resort hotel With the exception of Detective-Superintendent Colin Randolph, they were dressed identically in navy blue Berht blue shirts, and kneesocks As an officer, Randolph was allowed to wear a white shirt

The men, in their spit-and-polish unifor his pajamas when he welcomed Randolph and his team aboard The captain led the way to the aft deck and introduced Randolph to Austin and Zavala, who had been talking to crew ave the NUMA aze to the bodies lying on the cartridge-littered deck

The detective-superintendent was a round-faced man in his ins in Barbados, where he had been born

He blew out his prominent cheeks like a puffer fish

“Good Lord!” he said in astonish at the bullet-riddled wreck of the Hu?”

“It was a re the ocean bottom,” Zavala said