Every breath you take

Every move you make

Every bond you break

Every step you take

I'll be watching you

Taken from the song Every Breath You Take by Sting and The Police

EVERY STEP YOU TAKE

PROLOGUE

Jerome Martinez stood standing in front of the window of his office. Outside the landscape was mountainous and further off to the left he could see the distant line of the sea. Behind him the door opened.

'Sir?'

Turning Jerome fixed his gaze on the man. He did not have to say anything, the man before him knew what it was Jerome wanted to know.

'They have left with her sir. They should be reaching the airfield in fifteen minutes.'

'Good.' Jerome turned back to the window. 'The pilot has been informed?'

'Yes sir, the plan is all arranged. They'll ensure that the body is dropped in the sea; it should be week's maybe months before it's found. If it's found at all.'

'Thank you; that will be all.'

With a nod the man exited. Jerome allowed himself a smile. All was going well, within the hour Katherine Anderson would no longer be a problem to him. It had been easy to keep her here until he was sure that he had the information he needed. There had been no way of escape from this island for her. It had proved even easier to persuade her to leave, telling her it was for her own safety and he would join her as soon as he could. The bitch didn't even have a clue what his real business was or what her part had played in it.

*** High above Pacific Ocean, HM Murdock piloted his plane with grace and ease. In the cabin behind him was the A-Team. Two of them awake, the third drugged.

Murdock let his thoughts drift to the mission. His best friend's daughter Katie was in trouble and her mother had hired them to find her and get her back. Murdock had listened to Karen's suspicions and had agreed. He had felt that something was wrong as soon as he'd read her last letter. It had conveyed nothing out of the ordinary but he knew Katie and something wasn't right.

Now they were going to find her and bring her home, whatever it took. He had not yet figured out how much this girl meant to him or realised just how the shape of his life would be changed by the coming days. But soon now his life was going to be changed forever. But he could not know any of this and to Murdock; it was just a mission. And she was just a girl.