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The reaction tiuards, as Pitt had previously esti hut before they ca from the retreat on their dirt bikes toward the dock, which had also ignited and was now going up in flames For the second time in an hour he surfaced inside the hut Feet could be heard pounding through the passageway He slaed his trusty dive knife between the outer edge and the fra it closed
An old hand at riding watercraft, he jumped astride the nearest one and pressed the starter button He squeezed the thumb throttle, and thein the water and threw the craft and Pitt forward Together, they struck the fli across the lake Cold, wet, exhausted and bleeding from the bullet wound in his hip, Pitt felt like a man who had just won the lottery, the sweepstakes and broke the bank at Monte Carlo But only for the time it took to reach the dock beside his cabin
Then reality set in, and he knew the worst was yet to come
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LO HAN STARED DUMBSTRUCK at thethe black cata in on the yacht, ra explosion rocked the security vehicle, te out the surveillance systems Lo Han ran outside and down to the shoreline to witness the disaster firsthand
There will be a heavy price to pay, he thought, staring at the yacht as it sank under the lake in a cloud of steaave He would not be pleased when he learned that one of his four yachts had been destroyed Already Lo Han was
After he had deht, there had been no coherent communication from the black boat and its crew of enforcers He had to believe that they were drunk and had passed out in a stupor What other explanation could there be? What reason for purposely co to cross his mind was the specter of an outside source as responsible for this disaster
Two of his guards canized them as the men from his water patrol
"Lo Han," one of thenearly four hundred yards out and back through the passageway to the floating log hut
He stared at the Hui, Li San, why aren't you men on the water with your craft?"
"We couldn't reach the Hui "The d
oor was locked Before we could force it open the hut was on fire, and we had to escape back into the tunnel or be burned alive"
"The door was locked!" Lo Han bellowed "Impossible I personally instructed that no lock be installed"
"I swear to you, Lo Han," said Li San, "the door was barred from the inside"
"Perhaps it beca Hui