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Chapters (82)
  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Notice
  3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  4. ONE
  5. TWO
  6. THREE
  7. FOUR
  8. FIVE
  9. SIX
  10. SEVEN
  11. EIGHT
  12. NINE
  13. TEN
  14. ELEVEN
  15. TWELVE
  16. THIRTEEN
  17. FOURTEEN
  18. FIFTEEN
  19. SIXTEEN
  20. SEVENTEEN
  21. EIGHTEEN
  22. NINETEEN
  23. TWENTY
  24. TWENTY-ONE
  25. TWENTY-TWO
  26. TWENTY-THREE
  27. TWENTY-FOUR
  28. TWENTY-FIVE
  29. TWENTY-SIX
  30. TWENTY-SEVEN
  31. TWENTY-EIGHT
  32. TWENTY-NINE
  33. THIRTY
  34. THIRTY-ONE
  35. THIRTY-TWO
  36. THIRTY-THREE
  37. THIRTY-FOUR
  38. THIRTY-FIVE
  39. THIRTY-SIX
  40. THIRTY-SEVEN
  41. THIRTY-EIGHT
  42. THIRTY-NINE
  43. FORTY
  44. FORTY-ONE
  45. FORTY-TWO
  46. FORTY-THREE
  47. FORTY-FOUR
  48. FORTY-FIVE
  49. FORTY-SIX
  50. FORTY-SEVEN
  51. FORTY-EIGHT
  52. FORTY-NINE
  53. FIFTY
  54. FIFTY-ONE
  55. FIFTY-TWO
  56. FIFTY-THREE
  57. FIFTY-FOUR
  58. FIFTY-FIVE
  59. FIFTY-SIX
  60. FIFTY-SEVEN
  61. FIFTY-EIGHT
  62. FIFTY-NINE
  63. SIXTY
  64. SIXTY-ONE
  65. SIXTY-TWO
  66. SIXTY-THREE
  67. SIXTY-FOUR
  68. SIXTY-FIVE
  69. SIXTY-SIX
  70. SIXTY-SEVEN
  71. SIXTY-EIGHT
  72. SIXTY-NINE
  73. SEVENTY
  74. SEVENTY-ONE
  75. SEVENTY-TWO
  76. SEVENTY-THREE
  77. SEVENTY-FOUR
  78. SEVENTY-FIVE
  79. SEVENTY-SIX
  80. Praise for Blood in the Water
  81. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  82. Newsletter Sign-up

The water in the harbor was flat and calm. The soldier carrying the launcher steadied himself, and with the aid of one of the other men managed to fire the weapon in the direction of the federal courthouse. Because the missile would be targeted by laser, all he had to do was send it in the general direction of its target. Computers would do the rest. A second later the second missile flew from the other boat.

The missiles circled up into the sky, seemingly directionless, searching, but after a few seconds it was as though they made a decision, and they honed in on the courthouse with a sense of purpose.

“They’ve got the target,” one of Javier’s men said.

“Yes,” Javier said. “Let us just hope that it is the right target.”

Buddy was shadowing the caravan moving toward the garage at the federal courthouse. He was moving east along Courthouse Way, toward Bond Drive. Cormack had said that the real attack would be coming from the harbor, up ahead, so he kept his eyes moving between the vans and the shoreline. As he moved along Courthouse Way, though, a commotion halfway up the block on Bond Street caught his eye. A man and a woman seemed to be struggling with each other. The man had a hood pulled up over his head and he was holding the woman with one hand while pointing something at the courthouse with his other hand. She seemed to be struggling to get away.

He recognized Diamond instantly, and it took only a second more for him to recognize the man as T’phong Soh. Buddy broke into a sprint toward them. Any thought of Vincente Carpio and the implications of an escape attempt fled his mind. All he could focus on was protecting the woman he loved.

“Diamond!” he called out. Soh recognized that Buddy was intent on attacking. A look of consternation came over his face, and he threw Diamond to the sidewalk. As he did, she lashed out and knocked something out of the hand that he had been pointing toward the courthouse. Just then, Buddy heard the deafening roar of what seemed like rockets echoing off the building as they flew up Courthouse Way.

“No!” Soh screamed, diving for the object he’d dropped.

“Diamond! Stay down!” Buddy screamed. It was instinctive, but he knew that whatever was about to happen wasn’t going to be good. If he could have, he would have thrown himself over her, but he wasn’t close enough. And then, all of a sudden, there was an explosion that made the attack at the front of the courthouse seem like firecrackers.

SEVENTY