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"How's your throwing arm?"

Giordino nodded in understanding "Keep this old barge in a straight line and fireball Giordino wig retire the opposing term"

The open town car made a perfect platfor backward, his head and shoulders exposed above the roof He took aih arc toward the leading Mercedes

for an instant his heart seized He thought he had underthrown as the wrench dropped low and landed on the hood of the car But it took a bounce and sh the windshield

The Arab driver had spotted G

iordino in the act of heaving the wrench

His reaction tih He hit the brakes and cralass burst in a thousand tiny pieces and sprayed into his face The wrench caro wheel and dropped into Ismail's lap

The driver in the second Mercedes was hanging close to the rear bumper of Ish the air He was caught cohts in front of his eyes suddenly flashed red He stared helplessly as he ra out of control until it ca in the opposite direction

"That what you had in mind?" asked Giordino cheerfully

"Right on theour Turn" Pitt slowed and swung the Cord onto a narrow, snowpacked road leading in a series of switchbacks up the mountainside

The straight-eight engine with its 115-horsepower strained to pull the heavy car over the slippery, uneven surface The stiff chassis springs jolted everyone like tennis balls in a washing hter rear end slewed back and forth Pitt co wheel, using the pulling power of the front-wheel drive to keep the long hood pointed up the ue hiking to

Lily and Hala had picked the in the seat, feet braced against the divider partition, hanging onto the overhead straps for dear life

Sixabove timberline The road now ran between steep inclines carpeted with inal idea to abandon the Cord and y landscape for cover, but the depth of Colorado's faher altitudes, e on foot nearly impossible

He was left with no alternative but to reach the suh time to take a chair lift down the mountain to the town and become lost in the crowds

"We're boiling," Giordino observed