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guards raised

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is rifle. It clattered loudly on the floo

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uad was falling like dominoes. There was no blood

on m

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he com

ezed her jaw. The pain

gue. He clamped her mouth shut and stroked

shoved him away, c

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a trace isotope that would show up as an anomaly on any standard

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was sobbing, hysterical

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gun again. "

red b

the chain of the massive cr

ain sn

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now. He held a handk

eezed. "Masks! P

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at him with horror. The gas hadn't reached her y

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sound vibrated through t

pter r

through the tall windows, washing

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could buy. The FBI he could stall. Th

window. He wiped the

y," he