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"Where are we in relation to the volcanoes that anchor each end of the island?" asked Pitt

"We're about half way between and opposite the lagoon"

"Where do you think your boys ht be held?" Giordino put to her

"I wish I knew," she said distantly "My first guess is the manor house, but I wouldn't put it past uard, in the security couson"

"Not a good idea to wander around like tourists looking for a restaurant," said Pitt

"I' to do is find someone in authority with the answers and twist his arm"

Pitt fastidiously straightened the jacket of his stolen uniform and brushed off the shoulders "If he's on the island, I know just the man"

Twentyover a road that wound in a series of hairpin turns over the spine of the island, they approached the couards

Keeping in the sheltered gloom of the underbrush, they skirted the detention cahts illuh electrified fence that was topped by rows of circular razor wire The area was so heavily secured by electronic surveillance syste around the perimeter

In another hundred estured for Pitt and Giordino to drop behind a low hedge that bordered a concrete thoroughfare One end of the road ended at a driveway that passed through a large arched gate to the Dorsett family manor house A short distance in the opposite direction, the road split One broad avenue trailed down a slope to the port in the center of the lagoon, where the docks and warehouses reflected a weird appearance under the eerie yello of sodiu boat tied beside the dock Even at this distance, there was nothe Dorsett yacht Pitt was especially pleased to see a helicopter sitting on the upper deck

"Does the island have an airstrip?" he asked Maeve

She shook her head "Daddy refused to construct one, preferring all his transportation by sea He uses a helicopter to carry him back and forth from the Australian mainland Why do you want to know?"

"A process of elietaway bird sits yonder on the yacht," Pitt said

"You clever man, you had that

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