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Paid in Blood
Copyright © 2006 by Mel Odom. All rights reserved.
Cover photographs of crime tape and people © 2006 by Brian MacDonald. All rights reserved.
Back cover photograph of submarine © by Brand X Pictures. All rights reserved.
Author photograph copyright © by Michael Patrick Brown. All rights reserved.
Designed by Dean H. Renninger
This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons living or dead is entirely coincidental and beyond the intent of either the author or publisher.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Odom, Mel.
Paid in blood / Mel Odom.
p. cm. — (Military NCIS ; #1)
ISBN-13: 978-1-4143-0306-2 (pbk.)
ISBN-10: 1-4143-0306-8 (pbk.)
1. Terrorists—Fiction. 2. United States. Naval Criminal Investigative Service—Fiction. I. Title. PS3565.D53P35 2006
813'.54—dc22 2005035608
Printed in the United States of America
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CONTENTS
A Prayer: God, watch over my children as they grow up and go out into the world. I cannot see them as you can, and I love them with all my heart. Please keep them close to you and safe.
To Jan Stob, the only editor I know who has shot the Desert Eagle .50 pistol and the Colt .500 Magnum on the same day, and left the target silhouette in tatters with a 12-gauge shotgun!
And to Jeremy Taylor, who went beyond the call of duty to show his support of this novel. Jeremy, it wouldn’t have been the same without you!
>> MEDITERRANEAN SEA, OFF THE COAST OF GREECE
>> NINETEEN DAYS AGO
Intensely alert, the radar operator sat hunched over his equipment in the small cabin of the research ship Observer. “The target is holding steady.”
“You are certain this is the ship?” Qadir Yaseen stood behind the young man. Yaseen was in his fifties, lean and hard-bodied because he had spent most of his life fighting a jihad against the aggressors of his people. He wore a traditional mogasab over a thobe. The robe’s gold trim stood out against the dark cotton. His black smagh framed ...
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About Paid in BloodThe death of a fellow NCIS agent in North Carolina leads Will Coburn and his special team of naval crime-scene investigators to discover a drug-and-arms smuggling ring. The investigation leads them to a U.S. military base in South Korea. When a body is stolen from a crime scene, the team discovers that their suspect is not who he seems. Nuclear weapons have gone missing, and it's a race against time as the NCIS team uncovers the true face of evil. |
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