"You failed," Dimitri snapped at Luis Silva. Luis, the battle dragon of the Silva family who controlled most of Brazil, curled his lips in a challenge. He slammed his hands down on Dimitri's desk. Dimitri looked at those hands, unimpressed by the cracks they'd made in the wood finish.

"Last night wasn't my fault," Luis said. "Those bullets you provided me? Completely underpowered."

"That is the nature of a subsonic silenced pistol," Dimitri countered. He'd overestimated ...