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Rafael de la Maza, a banker from the suburbs of Seville, had died almost instantly. He was still clutching the 50,000 pesetas the strange American had paid him for a cheap black blazer.
Tankado was in Spain—and Spain meant Hulohot. The forty-two-year-old Portuguese mercenary was one of the commander’s favorite pros.
He had set the vibrating silent-ring feature on his SkyPager.
He had earned her.
TRANSLTR’s titanium-strontium processors had just ignited.
“Meet the kamikaze of computer invaders…the worm.”
“Director,” Jabba sputtered. “Right now, Ensei Tankado owns this databank! Give him whatever he wants. If he wants the world to know about TRANSLTR, call CNN, and drop your shorts. TRANSLTR’s a hole in the ground now anyway—what the hell do you care?” There was a silence. Fontaine seemed to be considering his options. Susan began to speak, but Jabba beat her to it.
Tankado’s worm is not targeting our data.” He cleared his throat. “It’s targeting our security filters.”
“Gauntlet was our fail-safe. Strathmore blew it.”
“Hulohot killed him with an NTB—a noninvasive trauma bullet. It’s a rubber pod that strikes the chest and spreads out. Silent.

