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“This isn’t our usual way of doing things, Chairman”
“I know, Linda, but we ht time to make this all work out”
“Or the kidnappers are going to issue their deood old Geoffrey boy will be home in time for dinner”
“You’re forgetting one critical piece” Juan didn’thim out of the country is a risk they didn’t need if this was about a cash ransom If that’s all they wanted they would have stashed him someplace within Switzerland, issued their de is as meticulous as you suspect, there has to be another level to their plot we haven’t seen”
Linda Ross nodded, sensing the gravity of the situation “Like what?”
“Find the Devil’s Oasis and maybe we’ll know”
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THE headphones clamped around Sloane’s ears lued to her skin, but to take the throb of the helicopter’s engine and rotor It was a balance of discomforts that she’d endured for two fruitless days
The back of her shirt was also sticky Every time she shifted position it stuck to the vinyl seat She’d learned early on to hold the shirt when sheher a leering grin from Luka, who sat next to her on the rear bench seat She would have preferred to sit in the front next to the pilot, but he said he needed Tony’s weight in the cockpit to keep the small chopper in proper trim
They were returning to Swakoprateful and frustrated Seven times they’d flown out over the ocean and searched the spots circled on herfound nothing but natural rock formations The portabletether failed to find any h to be an anchor, let alone an entire ship
Her body ached froht she’d never get Luka’s body odor out of her nostrils She had been so sure of her plan to use local fishere of the waters off the coast that she hadn’t even considered failing But now that they were returning to the little heliport in the dunes outside of Swakoplare off the ocean below penetrated her sunglasses and made her head pound
Tony turned in his seat to look at her and motioned for her to jack her headphones back into the helicopter’s internal coive her pity party some privacy
“The pilot says that the chopper doesn’t have the range to check that last spot on the ot from Papa Heinrick”
“What’s this about Papa Heinrick?” Luka asked, blasting Sloane with a dose of halitosis
Soht raft trip down in Sandwich Bay to visit the crazy old fisherly suspected that Luka had been right all along and just didn’t want to aduide