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50Sucre, Venezuela, 13 July 2014
The view in the binoculars resolved, bringing the yacht into focus. The name on the hull proclaimed her to be Phoenix and if one investigated the shipping registries, one would not find anything amiss.
PhoenixLuc Fortesque wasn’t fooled by such a document as a registry. He knew with absolute certainty that the yacht was the former Sea Crusader. And aboard, in self-imposed exile, was the most-wanted man in the world.
Sea CrusaderAs Fortesque watched, bay doors in the hull slid open and the yacht’s tender put out. He lowered the binoculars but kept watching the tender’s wake as it angled toward the Venezuelan coastline. After a week of surveillance, Fortesque knew the spot on the beach where it would land.
The Gulf of Paria separates the Venezuelan co
