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“Well, fro anywhere soon” He shook his head “What happened to it?”

“Austin here was using the vehicle for cover, and the gunmen shot it out from under him,” Zavala said

Randolph glanced at Austin, then gave Zavala a hard stare Seeing nothing in either , the detective-superintendent ordered his team to cordon off the crime scene with yellow police tape

He turned to the captain

“I’d be very pleased if you could tell ht”

“Glad to,” Gannon said “Around three in the , four armed men boarded the ship from a small boat and roustedpaja co for Dr Max Kane, a scientist who had been involved with the bathysphere project”

“Did they say why they wanted Dr Kane?”

Gannon shrugged

“Their leader was a creepy guy with a shaved head When I told him that Kane had left the ship, he rounded up my crew and threatened to kill them He would have followed up on his threat if Kurt and Joe hadn’t intervened”

Randolph turned back to Austin and Zavala

“So you’re the ones responsible for this mess?”

“We didn’t have a lot of choice at the time,” Austin said

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?Do all NUMA research vessels carry armed security men?”

“Joe and I weren’t arun the Bathysphere 3 project”