Viper: A Thriller

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For over five hours Avery lay still, prone in the mud and leaf litter. Damp grass and weeds clung to his face. His boots were soaked through to his socks. The tropical heat penetrated his fatigues. All around him, his ears were inundated with the sounds of the rainforest. Water streamed off leaves. Birds squawked. Monkeys chattered. Insects buzzed.

He couldn’t help but ask himself, not for the first time, why he’d taken this job. The truth was that he simply wasn’t able to say no when Matt Culler called with a job. Culler ran the independent contractors, sometimes called scorpions, who CIA’s Global Response Staff kept on retainer. Avery needed to make a living like anyone else, and this was quite simply the only thing for which he was any good. More important, if he declined, he didn’t want it going into his 201 file that he was unreliable, or stepped away from a challenge, and be subsequently passed over when the next job came along.

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