The Chameleon Factor by Don Pendleton

Author:Don Pendleton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Worldwide Library
Published: 2013-11-08T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Aboard the White Pearl

Stepping naked out of the steam room, Davis Harrison took a towel from the counter and started to dry himself. His body was smooth and nearly hairless, almost feminine in its contours.

“Sorry to keep you waiting, my dear.” He chuckled, vigorously rubbing his head. “But I wanted our first time to be—shall we say?—special.”

There was no reply from the next room.

Drying off his legs, Harrison flinched as always as the towel passed over his genitalia. He had been a courier, merely carrying a message to an SAS commando unit in Beijing when he was captured by the infamous Chinese counterintelligence group Red Star. Harrison was beaten, stripped, tortured and finally mutilated and released to be a warning to other British operatives.

Unable to reveal what had been done, he got himself cashiered from the service, and then sold his skills on the world market to anybody with hard cash. Soon, he had enough money, and delicate plastic surgery made him function normally again. But by then he was a wanted criminal on four continents. Unable to risk retirement and chance being found and imprisoned, Harrison found he had no choice but to continue his work. Spy, agent provocateur, smuggler, assassin—they were all the same to him now. Merely jobs to be done without any emotional involvement. That was, unless China was the target, and then he worked with a ferocity that startled even the hardened agents of the Red Star.

Toweling the rest of his body dry, Harrison wrapped the terry cloth low around his waist. But this mission would be his final revenge. China would never recover from the aftereffects of the Chameleon, and at last maybe he could turn the memory of that night of screaming in his head when the Red Star had strapped him into a cane chair and stolen his manhood with a pair of scissors.

Shuddering at the recollection, Harrison bent over clutching his stomach. Fighting the urge to retch, he regained control of his breathing and wiped a sheen of sweat off his face. Payback is coming, you bastards, he snarled at his reflection in the foggy mirror. Oh, God, yes, payback like you could never imagine!

Settling down, Harrison tossed aside the towel and slid on a pair of pants and slippers before going to his open suitcase and choosing a knife from the small assortment hidden inside the lining. Even without the Chameleon, smuggling things into and out of Russia had never really been a problem. Their army was formidable, but their security was a joke.

Parachuting down into cropland, Harrison had dragged the unwilling flight attendant with him to the nearest farmhouse. After killing the family, he bound and gagged the woman into a trunk, tossed it into the family’s car and drove away into the night. Although Gwen looked English, she spoke Chinese perfectly. For some reason that offended him deeply, so Harrison decided to keep her as both a hostage in case of pursuit, and for some private retribution later on should the opportunity arise.

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