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1 Annja Creed stood in a twelve-foot-deep sacrificial pit beneath a gathering storm. The stor
2 “You’re in India?” Annja held the satellite phone to her ear and strained to hear. “Yes, D
3 Annja clung to the bark and hoped it didn’t give way beneath her fingers. All she saw was s
4 “A ship! I see a ship!” Wearily, Goraksh Shivaji lifted his head and stared out at the ble
5 “Dude, nagas were evil.” “Maybe in Dungeons & Dragons Third Edition, but not in Three-Poin
6 The Grimjoy rocked on the sea with a careless abandon that told Goraksh the craft hadn’t be
7 The four men in the speedboat concentrated on the dig members in the shallows near the clif
8 Annja shoved her journal and pen into her backpack. She grabbed her Mini Maglite from one o
9 Most of the dig crew slept eventually. There’d been nothing else to do. Lacking television
10 The black helicopter with the corporate logo of a gold dragon in midflight landed out on t
11 James Fleet arrived in the Kanyakumari morgue two minutes ahead of the appointed time. He
12 Only a few minutes out of Kanyakumari, according to the helicopter pilot, Annja posted the
13 Fleet stepped into the police station from the humid heat of the streets. The day hadn’t e
14 An elephant blocked the street ahead of Annja. She stopped and watched the creature for a
15 Annja was in heaven. Naked, she stood in the opulent bathroom and stared at the huge whirl
16 Goraksh walked through his father’s warehouse. He’d never thought of it as the family’s wa
17 Annja opened the door. “Captain.” “Miss Creed.” Shafiq looked angry and his deep voice ca
18 “I was told you were going to throw that phone away,” Annja said. The thought crossed her
19 “Look, Annja,” Doug went on, “it wasn’t my decision to pull the funding for the excavation
20 Annja’s first impulse was to run. Her martial-arts training supported that course of actio
21 “A ship doesn’t simply sink beneath the ocean when it goes down. A large part of what happ
22 Seated in the small galley with her notebook computer, Annja read through the responses he
23 Hands extended to break the surface tension, Annja hit the sea cleanly. The Casablanca Moo
24 The increased pressure of the ocean closed in around Annja. She focused on the sailcloth a
25 Annja swam through the deep water. She took several pictures of the sailcloth, the skelet
26 Excitement filled Annja as she stepped up onto the deck. She ran her fingers through her h
27 Back aboard the Casablanca Moon, Annja worked under the canopy while the cool night air bl
28 With his duffel bag over his shoulder, Fleet paused at the slip beside the coast guard cut
29 “Cannibals?” Annja couldn’t believe it. If the people of Kumari Kandam had been cannibals,
30 Stunned by the attack, Annja barely stayed conscious. Her breath exploded from her lungs i
31 The coast guard team got a split-second’s warning before the missiles from the approaching
32 The basement measured fifteen feet by ten feet and smelled like rotting vegetables. Other
33 They left immediately in the dead of night, which Annja thought was an auspicious time to
34 James Fleet narrowly missed hanging his parachute in a tree. He would have been mortified
35 Cloaked in the overhang of the craggy faces of the mountains on the south side of the rive
36 The inflatables butted expertly up against the docks and rebounded gently before a man in
37 On the other side of the wall, Annja heard the movement above her too late to do anything
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