Gulf of Thailand
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hakara Khin nodded at the Thai Chief Engineer of the tanker they’d just raided in the southern part of the gulf. The man manipulated some controls and the whine of the pumping motors wound down to silence. Over on old Yiey floating alongside, the captain gave him a wave and Khin set some of his raiders to uncoupling the hose connections. The mothership was much lower in the water with a full load of stolen oil in her bunkers. And Chakara Khin would be significantly richer when his cut of the money they’d get for that oil filtered into his account. That would take a few weeks, but the job here was done. All they had left to do was spark a little extra fear in the Thai tanker crew and be on their way.
The master of the vessel, a veteran Thai seaman who had just earned h
