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panel aside to enter, Jin snapped off the penlight . She’d learned to appreciate the safety darkness offered.
    Once the cowboy and his team were inside with Pang and Har, one of his team asked, “What’s the plan, Bo?”
    Bo? That was probably not a real name. They would not use real names here.
    Fair enough. She would limit what she told them as well.
    Bo said, “I’ve got one, but it has more holes than a sieve. She’s going to show us the way out of the city.”
    Pang and Har stood ten feet away, but with no light on in here they couldn’t see her, because she couldn’t see them .
    Pang piped up. “She ? What she?”
    She might as well answer Pang as there was no hiding from him at this point . “Jin.”
    “Says she’s part of the network that’s helping you two escape,” Bo explained . “Works in your lab.”
    Pang would ruin her chance to leave by telling these men she was of no value to the Americans .
    That would have been bad enough, but Pang said, “You would trust a woman who sleeps with our soldiers?”
    With one question, that lying dog Pang had undermined all the work she’d done to gain the cowboy’s trust in a short time and made her sound like a whore.

     
    Chapter Five
     
    Tanner clenched his fists at Pang insinuating Jin was a slut. Why am I so angry on her behalf?
    Maybe she had slept with half of the DPRK army.
    But Tanner took one look at her stricken face and questioned the validity of Pang’s statement . This woman had laid into a soldier who could have killed her, especially if he’d gotten a shot off with that weapon pointed at Tanner’s head.
    She’d have died next.
    Nick, Dingo and Blade waited on Tanner’s word.
    There wasn’t time to waste speculating about Jin’s sex life . Tanner had made the decision to go with her option for escaping the city. He was sticking with it. Indecision was the quickest way to die on a mission like this one.
    He pointed at Jin then realized she couldn’t see anything in the dark . “Turn on your penlight, Jin, and keep it away from our faces. Get busy showing us the way out of here.”
    Pang made a disgusted noise in his throat, but Tanner ignored it . For now.
    Har started wheezing. Blade produced an inhaler and handed it to Har .
    Turning to Nick and Dingo, Tanner said, “Cover us outside.”
    They left without creaking the panel that pretended to be a door.
    Jin turned on her tiny flashlight and stuck it between her lips . Then she started dragging rotten boards and debris off to the side.
    Pang’s clothes had wet spots at heavy perspiration points. He had about forty pounds more than he needed for someone five-foot-nine . That one wouldn’t make a serious hike.
    Pang asked, “What are you doing, Jin?”
    She spoke around the flashlight. “Show you the way out.”
    That must not have been what Pang was looking for. His tone sharpened . “Why are you here ?”
    Standing up, she pulled the flashlight out of her mouth and answered, “Because Myong has betrayed you and the soldiers know you are both defecting.”
    Pang snarled, “How can that be? Who did this?”
    Jin dropped the handful of garbage off to the side and turned to Tanner . “I cannot show you the way if I have to spend all night answering questions.”
    Tanner ordered, “No more questions, Pang.”
    “What? You cannot—”
    “I can and will do whatever I deem necessary to get you, Har and my men out of here alive . You and Har keep quiet unless one of us asks you a question.”
    She stared at Tanner, clearly catching that he had not included her in the people on his exit list.
    Instead of commenting on it, she grabbed the edge of a barrel that had to weigh more than she did and started to drag it out of the way.
    Tanner pushed her aside. “Give me some room.”
    The minute he had it moved, Tanner stepped back. “Now what?”
    Jin kicked dirt out of the way with the toe of her boot in a couple spots until she struck something solid. She dropped to her knees to