"Steve Perry - Matador 6 - The Albino Knife" - читать интересную книгу автора (Perry Steven)

dance and skipped to the Braided Laser.

The assassin managed to clear his shotpistol from his hidden holster and had it halfway up when Bork's
fist hammered down in the form of the Sword of the Sun.

Too hard, Bork realized, as the man's skull cracked under his blow. Well. That's why they had medics.

The fourth man was blinking away his surprise when Bork twirled toward him. Steel Circle and—

The man lifted his hand to the back of his neck and snapped his elbow and wrist down in a blur. The
throwing steel spun toward the charging man. Bork tried to shift, but his forward momentum only allowed
him a quarterstep to one side. It was enough so that the point of the steel hit him just above the belt, but
outside the rectus abs proper, on the hard knot of lateral muscle. Another three centimeters and it would
have missed entirely. The steel sank half its length and stopped, not doing any real damage.

Bork hoped the blade wasn't poisoned.

It worked out that when he reached the wide-eyed knifeman, who was going fora second steel, the best
of the nineteen dances to use was the last one. Bork shifted his feet and slid the final half meter and
brought the heels of his hands together in front of his chest in the first part of Mimosa Sleeps Softly.

Unfortunately for the knifeman, his temples were in the way of Bork's hands.

Too hard again, Bork.Emile would give you static for that.

Bork pulled the knife from his side and looked at it.Didn't look like it was coated with chem. That was
good.

Now.He needed to find out who these people were and why they had come for him.

Prologue Six

When the motor of the aircar exploded, both Dirisha andGeneva bailed out. Fortunately the car was
moving slowly and only a few centimeters above the road. It wasn't a bigblast, just enough to wreck the
repellors and coil, but Dirisha knew it wasn't an accident. She hit the road rolling, tore the shoulder of her
orthoskins, and came up with spetsdods extended.

There were six,no, seven of them, coming out of the brush on both sides of the outback road, and it
couldn't be anything but a set-up.

"Geneva!Four on your side!"

The aircar was still skidding to a stop on the hard surface, shredding the plastic skirt before the safety
wheels had a chance to kick out fully, when the first spring gun twanged and sent a needle her way.
Dirisha pointed her finger at the shooter and the spetsdod coughed twice. The two shocktox darts hit the
woman in the face and she started to fall.

Dirisha rolled again, felt more spring needles thwip past her, and came up with her left spetsdod on full
auto and her right tracking the sound of the spring gun.