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Paid in Blood
By: Mel OdomImprint: Tyndale House Publishers
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The 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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| Title of eBook: Paid in Blood | Series: N.C.I.S., , #1 |
| Release Date: 09-30-2010 | |
| Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers |
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| Parent title | Paid in Blood |
|---|---|
| Encrypted (DRM) | Yes |
| SKU | 9781414341668 |
| File size | 1889 |
| Internet Security | n/a |
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| Copying | Not allowed |
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Paid in Blood
Chapter One
>> WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA >> THE PRESENT >> 2053 HOURS
Will Coburn stopped in front of the dead woman lying crumpled on the threadbare carpet. He stared down at her. Violent death still gave him pause even after years of seeing it.
He held his flashlight steady and examined the woman's body. She was in her midtwenties. She'd kept her black hair short and neat, but blood matted it now. More blood streaked her face and made her look of pained surprise even more stark. She wore blue jeans and a dove gray blouse under a nondescript green Windbreaker.
Someone had cut the woman's throat. Crimson streaked the front of her blouse and Windbreaker.
Only a few blood streaks stained the carpet she lay on.
Violence and death no longer shocked Will. Since his transfer to NCIS, the Naval Criminal Investigative Services, three years ago, he had seen every kind of inhumanity one person could show another. But he never got used to seeing it. It was enough, at times, for him to question God, though he knew that God allowed men free will. When men abused their freedom, it was their own fault, not God's. Still, the peace Will had with the Lord was an uneasy thing, made even more uneasy by what was occurring in his own family life these past months.
Will glanced around the apartment, trailing the flashlight beam with his sea green eyes. There was no electrical power to the room. The building super was supposed to be working on that.
Unfurnished and untended, the apartment held the thick smell of must and old sweat. The late March night left the room cloaked in thick shadows. Whirling
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