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"How are we fixed for weapons?" Giordino asked Gunn calmly

"Two M4 carbines with attached forty-renade launchers"

"Nothing heavier?"

"Easily hidden small arms is all the admiral would allow on board in case ere stopped and searched by a Nicaraguan patrol boat"

"Do we look like drug slers?" demanded Renee

Dodge stared at her with a crooked slers look like?"

Pitt said, "I've got my old Colt forty-five How about you, Al?"

"A fifty-caliber Desert Eagle automatic"

"We may not be able to sink them," said Pitt "But at least we can repel boarders"

"If they don't blast us to srunted Giordino, as another missile landed in Poco Bonito's wake no more than fifty feet astern

"So long as their rockets aren't equipped with ho devices, they can't hit what they can't see"

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to wink in the darkness behind theeneral direction Tracers danced over the surface of the sea fifty yards to starboard in a spraying pattern Gunn, playing the odds, turned the boat to port for a short distance before heading straight again The tracers ever so slowly spiraled through the night, groping for their prey before falling away into the dark sea where Poco Bonito should have been but wasn't

Two ht The pirates played the odds and fired them alht idea, but they fired when Gunn was ht course before he feinted port before turning starboard The rockets landed on opposite sides of the boat within fifty feet, showering the decks with twin cascades of water

Then the firing stopped and it seeh a mantle of stillness had been drawn over the boat Only the beat of the rowl of the exhaust and the water sloshing past the bow broke the silence