Lethal Risk
SHADOW CHASEA high-ranking Chinese official has arranged to defect to the United States and reveal war crimes his country has perpetrated throughout Asia. But while en route to discreetly bring the official to American soil, Mack Bolan learns the man has been arrested, and the mission becomes much more urgent. And dangerous.Bolan's first stop, the notorious prison where the official is being held, is a trap he barely escapes. On the run through the streets of Beijing, with intelligence agents hot on his trail, time is running out to recover the defector. And when his search-and-rescue leads him to a government-sanctioned organ-harvesting facility, the Executioner adds search-and-destroy to his list of things to do before his trip to China is complete.
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SHADOW CHASE
A high-ranking Chinese official has arranged to defect to the United States and reveal war crimes his country has perpetrated throughout Asia. But while en route to discreetly bring the official to American soil, Mack Bolan learns the man has been arrested, and the mission becomes much more urgent. And dangerous.
Bolanâs first stop, the notorious prison where the official is being held, is a trap he barely escapes. On the run through the streets of Beijing, with intelligence agents hot on his trail, time is running out to recover the defector. And when his search-and-rescue leads him to a government-sanctioned organ-harvesting facility, the Executioner adds search-and-destroy to his list of things to do before his trip to China is complete.
Diving into the back, Bolan yelled, âGo, go, go!â
Liao hit the gas, and the truck leaped forward. âTheyâll never catch us now!â he shouted.
Bolan slumped against the tailgate. His leg twitched, and he felt his phone vibrating. He dug it out and answered. âWeâreââ
Tokaidoâs voice screamed in his ear. âMissile! Theyâve locked-on an antitank missile!â
âStop! Right now!â Bolan yelled as he shoved the phone into his pocket and grabbed the machine gun with his other hand.
The truck skidded to a halt and, as Liao turned to him, Bolan yelled, âIncoming missileâget out now!â
Liao scrabbled at the door handle and got it open as Bolan hit the ground. He made sure Liao was racing from the truck before running himself.
Bolan saw the bright flash of a missile launch and shouted, âHit the dirt!â as he threw himself forward.
Two seconds later, the world exploded.
Mack Bolan: Lethal Risk
Don Pendleton
A leader is best when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
âLao Tzu
A single person can change the course of history, and when one of these people needs help, Iâll move heaven and earth to make it happenâand go through anyone who stands in my way.
âMack Bolan
CONTENTS
Edward Carstairs couldnât stop drumming his fingers on the worsted wool of his navy blue dress slacks. Barely containing his impatient sigh, he peered through the thick, gray smog at the bumper-to-bumper traffic inching along the eight-lane superhighway. Although there was still an hour before sunset, the cloud of pollution lent a hazy, unreal appearance to the world outside.
Weâll never get there at this rate, he worried. âHow long now?â he asked his driver in flawless Mandarin.
âTen, fifteen minutes,â the man replied.
Rolling his eyes, Carstairs ran a hand through his thinning brown hair. It was the exact same answer heâd gotten the last three times heâd askedâinflection and allâover the past forty-five minutes.
He took a deep breath, tasting the pervasive, acrid odor of Beijingâs polluted air, and stared out the window, pondering what the successful completion of this assignment could mean to his career.
Carstairs had only been in China for eight weeks, and was still figuring things out at the US Embassy. So far the capital city had been a constant swirl of contradictions, delightful one day, maddening the next. But when a coded message had arrived from Washington, DC, instructing his superior to send a car and an escort with a stated âlow profileâ to pick up a family from an exclusive address in a gated community and bring them back to the embassy, Ambassador Balcius had picked Edward to carry out the task.
âIt should be a simple pickup,â heâd said. âNo one knows youâre coming, and the neighborhood is fairly close to your home. Your background and recent arrival make you perfect for the job, as no one has gotten a bead on you yetâat least, as far as we know. Iâm sorry I canât give you more information other than the minimum need-to-know, just know that this assignment has repercussions far beyond its seeming mundanity. Above all, be carefulâthe government here has its hand in everything. Take nothing for granted, and above all, trust no one.â
His superiorâs words ran through Carstairsâs mind again and he patted his right pocket, feeling the small tube of metal there. If he was caught carrying it, or even worse, using it, it would be a diplomatic incident at the least, and get him expelled from the country and possibly even end his career at the worst.
