Rebound (33 page)

Dartley sighed and went below to the cabin to fetch the M60 and the unused Miniman missile. He’d clean the Tausug off the
coral with the machine gun and remove the boats from the channel opening with the Miniman. That ought to convince everybody.

But Dartley was annoyed to have to steep himself in indiscriminate bloodshed again after a nice clean kill.

In the Philippines, desperate Communist guerillas and ruthless government forces vie for total control. In the middle of this
bloody free-for-all, one powerful jungle warlord is determined to carve out an impregnable empire for himself. His method:’
send out his elite private goon squad to murder any American within reach-and grab the prize pieces in the ensuing chaos.

It’s a million-dollar job for Richard Dartley the world’s most select assassin-for-hiref the man with many aliases and a thousand
: ways to kill, For him, the fatal hit should be a simple matter of clear pl^fehing and clean execution. But amid the shifting
loyalties and tangled intrigue on America’s newest and hottest battleground, he knows damn well things are a lot more dangerous
than they seem…

THE CRIME MINISTER