The Orpheus Legacy

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The bow of the offshore raiding craft smashed up and down in the breaking waves of the Aegean. On board, a crew of mercenaries gripped automatic weapons, their determined faces hidden behind black ski masks. At the front of the former military boat, a tall, well-built man raised a Minox marine monocular to his eye and surveyed a formidable fault scarp cliff twisting away to the south. Beyond, the Mediterranean sun flashed on the water and momentarily dazzled him. He blinked it away and slid the lightweight magnifier into his tactical vest.

“It’s in the next bay,” their leader, Joseph Kashala, called out. “Just behind those cliffs.”

A few nods, but no words. Each man was making his own preparation for the mission ahead. If everything went to plan, it would be done and dusted in less than ten minutes. The easiest million dollars any of them ever made.

At the stern, the twin Steyr high-speed diesel engines roared as the merc piloting the craft increased power for a hard-starboard turn. Clearing the southern tip of the island, they now saw their target. The man at the tiller peered ahead across the water as he

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