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The hijackers twenty feet below them were so preoccupied with their task that they never looked up Juan gave a signal to Hali that he would take the ht while Hali shot the one on the left

They ai Juan fired His dart hit the terrorist in the back of the neck He turned at the same time that Hali’s dart hit the other one in the back Within three seconds, they both collapsed to the deck

Edging around the catwalk, Juan and Hali scanned the rest of the engine room No one else was there

They went down the stairs to find the two terrorists huddled on the floor,to thebo, so either he hadn’t understood the plan or he hadn’t been told the truth about it

While Hali inspected the bomb, Juan spoke to the Indonesians

“Where are your comrades?” he demanded in Arabic

Both of them responded in a dialect of Indonesian Juan was fluent in Arabic, Spanish, and Russian, but Indonesian wasn’t in his wheelhouse He took out a small tablet computer loaded with translation software, chose Indonesian, and repeated his question

The tablet spit out the audible translation After a pause, the e

Language not recognized

He read it to Hali, who didn’t look up from his examination of the bomb

“Must be some unusual dialect that the computer can’t interpret”

“Then we have a proble there’s a bo” He checked his watch “And noe have just ten minutes left to find it”

Hali stood “I think we have a bigger problem”

“What’s that?”

“I can’t deactivate the bon, and it’s riveted shut, so cutting wires isn’t an option And if we start typing in randoht set it off”