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By David Morrell

Drew MacLane is a celebrity agent in Scalpel, a clandestine, government-sanctioned association named for its function: certain surgical elimination. Assassination. Then MacLane makes a decision to forestall killing. He withdraws from the operation and retreats to a monastery, the place for 6 years he lives the lifetime of a hermit. yet then somebody tracks him down, leaving a path of our bodies. an individual who understands all approximately him–and will cease at not anything to spoil him.In this novel of exciting suspense, a former killer is drawn again into that electrifying global the place not anyone is as he seems–and the place life’s so much frightening, harrowing online game is performed.

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Perhaps even rabies, he realized with alarm. He almost stood to scare the mouse back into its hole, but as it reached a corner and veered from one baseboard to another, continuing to sniff, he guessed what it might be doing - searching for food. That would explain its apparent dizziness. It could be trembling from hunger. But shouldn't there be plenty of food around? he wondered. Then he realized that the rain outside had almost turned to sleet. The mouse would have to risk freezing to death and overcome difficult obstacles to travel what for it would be a considerable distance to the few ungathered apples in the orchard or the remnants of vegetables in the garden outside the cloister.

Bless me, father, for I have sinned. My last confession was thirteen years ago. " He told. And told, not even stopping when he described the photographs in his pocket and the priest began to gasp. 17 It was autumn again, October, his sixth year in the monastery. The ruddy glow of sunset tinted the brilliant maples on the hill. He heard the rattle of the serving hatch, then the familiar scrape and thump of a cup and bowl being set on the shelf beside his door. He lowered his ax, the blunt end of which he'd been striking against a metal wedge to split logs for his wood stove, and glanced toward the tiny hole at the base of the workroom wall where Stuart Little suddenly appeared.

And before? " Again Drew didn't respond. "You are a Roman Catholic? " "I was baptized into the faith. " Suddenly remembering how they'd died, he felt his throat ache. "We went to church often. Mass. The Stations of the Cross. I received the sacraments up through confirmation, and you know what they say about confirmation. " Drew bitterly smiled. " "Have you made your Easter duty? " "You understand what that means? " "By not going to confession and communion before Easter, I in effect resigned from the faith.

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