Threat Factor. Don Pendleton

in profile when the Parabellum manglers hit him, tore him up beyond repair and put him down for good.

      Mironov joined the Executioner beside the corpses, ready with her pistol if one of them tried to pull a Lazarus routine. When she was satified that they were dead, she said, “You run well, for a man…and an American.”

      “I do my best,” he said, then nodded toward her car. “Will that still run?”

      She smiled again. “Let’s try it and find out.”