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Download or read book Paid in Blood written by Mel Odom and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The death of a fellow NCIS agent in North Carolina leads Will Coburn and his special team of naval crime-scene investigators to discover a drug-and-arms smuggling ring. The investigation leads them to a U.S. military base in South Korea. When a body is stolen from a crime scene, the team discovers that their suspect is not who he seems. Nuclear weapons have gone missing, and it's a race against time as the NCIS team uncovers the true face of evil.

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