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“Do you think anyone at Pyraives a damn?” he asked

“Not from what I’ve seen Where do we start?”

“Get the Asian Crime Unit to crack down on the Ghost Devils While you handle this end, Joe and I will try to find the lab”

“What should I do about Charlie Yoo?”

“Use him, then lose him”

“I like that,” she said with an evil smile on her face

Lyons dropped them off at the NUMA tower Austin and Zavala headed their separate ways hoain at the airport

Austin checked his cell phone while driving hoate the cookie factory He listened to the voice ent Yoo had told the truth about one thing

Austin clicked the phone off and nailed the accelerator

Time, as always, had become the enemy

CHAPTER 30

AT THREE O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING, THE NAVY BLUE SUV pulled up to a hangar at Reagan National Airport and parked next to a sleek Cessna Citation X jet that had NUMA ee Aust

in and Casey eed from the SUV’s backseat, and the lieutenant handed over an eleven-by-sixteen-inch plastic pouch

“This packet contains the nuts-and-bolts details of the mission we talked about on the drive to the airport,” Casey said “Good luck, Kurt And keep your eyes peeled for sharks”

“Thank you, Lieutenant,” Austin said as they shook hands “But I’ll take a dorsal-finned man-eater any day over the schools of sharp-toothed politicians and government bureaucrats that swarm the Potomac waters”