Operation Norfolk by Randy Wayne White

Author:Randy Wayne White
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781504024600
Publisher: Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller

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Hawker spent three long days in Port Moresby, waiting.

He hated waiting, despised inactivity.

And so he found himself doing calisthenics every morning and taking long runs through the city every day. Sailors looked at him as if he were some crazy tourist, shaking their heads. But he kept it up every day, not wanting the fine physical edge honed at Coronado to wear off.

After exercising, he’d return to the hotel and study the charts, memorizing every last detail.

The CIA didn’t expect him to come out alive. Sha didn’t expect him to come out alive. Well, he wanted to prove them wrong. He liked surprising people, being an underdog—but one who emerges victorious.

Most of all, though, he wanted to surprise Cwong.

In the past few weeks, a picture of Con Ye Cwong had gathered detail in his mind, like an image on photographic paper coming to life in a tub of chemicals. Dull gray at first, the image soon took on details, shades of light and black, and finally came into sharp focus, to life.

Cwong was alive in Hawker’s mind now, a living, breathing creature, a fat spider comfortable in his web.

On one level, Cwong was a zealot motivated by greed and hatred. He liked money, he loved power, he hated Americans. A political animal who thought nothing of murder. On another level, Cwong was one of the twisted ones, one of those brain-damaged predators who feed on the human spirit, who draw strength from destroying those unfortunate enough to fall under their power. If he couldn’t kill them, he got them hooked on drugs and destroyed them that way. Or he provided weaponry to other zealots. On a third level, certainly his most personal and repulsive level, Cwong was an abuser. Not of women. Women were strong. Too strong. So he went for children. Girl children, certainly. Maybe boy children too. Cwong took them when they were too weak to fight back.

Hawker had a clear picture of the man, all right. A killer. A destroyer. A rogue animal filled with disease.

This might be his toughest assignment, but he had never come to an assignment with greater resolve.

Hawker wanted this man. He wanted to look him in the eye and tell the bastard why he was being killed before pulling the trigger.

For once Hawker’s role wasn’t that of a vigilante. He was now an executioner, plain and simple.

And James Hawker had come across few men more deserving of an executioner.

So he waited for three days, itchy as hell, anxious to do what he did best. He had told Sha that they must not meet again, must not see each other or be seen together before it was time to leave. Her people would certainly kill her if they found out she was involved with him in any way.

She had agreed without question, trusting him totally because, after all, he had been sent as an answer to her prayers. When he needed to get in touch with her, she said, he could stop at the convent outside town.

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