Deadly Mission (9 page)

Diesel took aim at Otto's flask. He pressed the trigger. The flask dissolved into a small heap of fine gray dust.

“Wow,” Peri said. “Better not use that unless it's life or death.”

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Illustrations copyright © 2012 by Sam Hadley
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First published in Great Britain in February 2012 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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