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The fifth man, the team’s leader—a ghost named Morrow who had supposedly died in a Chechen ambush five years earlier—finally spoke. “We don’t bring him in. Those were the new orders I received ten minutes ago.” He looked at each of them. “Subject 29 is too dangerous for containment. Termination authorized.”

No one argued.

The rain over Louisiana had not stopped for three days. In the attic of a collapsed plantation house, five men sat in a circle of dim lantern light. They were not friends. They were Manhunters—operatives of a secret international contract agency that only activated when Interpol, the FBI, and the UN collectively admitted failure. Manhunters -2006- 29