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Goar team had pulled double and triple shifts since Kyle Hanley’s rescue, trying to get the plucky little Robinson helicopter airworthy again The chopper jockey wasn’t too happy with the results Without a proper test, under controlled parauarantee the bird would fly All the individual mechanical systeether

The elevator had raised the helo to the ht teed Cabrillo to use it as the absolute last resort

Juan glanced at the digital countdown on the main view screen They had one hour and eleven et his sorry butt off the island In truth, they had less than that, because when the Orbital Ballistic Projectile slaood chance it would spawn a massive wave Eric’s calculations said that it would stay localized, and the topography of the sparsely populated Gulf of Mandalay would severely dampen its effect, but any ship within twenty miles of Eos was in for a wild ride

The Oregon was fifteen e froray luave this part of Turkey the nickname Turquoise Coast

George flew the drone over the eight-h so its engine couldn’t be heard, and, with the sun beginning a rapid slide into the west, it would be near i but barren rock and the occasional scrub pine He focused the UAV’s camera on where the Responsivists had built their bunker, but there was nothing to see Any entrance reed, from this altitude The only way to knoas even there was the paved road that terminated at the base of a low hillock

“Hali, capture a couple stills off the feed and enhance theates at the head of the road”

“I’m on it”

“Okay, George, swing us around I want to check out the beach and dock”

Using his joystick, Adams banked the remote-controlled plane back over the sea so he could approach the dock from out of the sun The beach stretched for only a few hundred feet, and, rather than soft white sand, it was composed of orn rock chips Sheer cliffs roseit in completely The cliffs the equipment and a few hours

The dock was situated at the exact center of the beach, an L-shaped jetty that thrust into the water a good eighty feet before the seafloor fell away enough for the sht the equipment to build the facility The causeway looked sturdy, and was h for the excavators and ceated- sat where the jettya wide-open field of fire for anyone up there They also had an unobstructed view of the sea approaches A pickup truck was parked behind the guardhouse

They could see two guards with high-powered binoculars on the roof, autouards alking the jetty, while two more patrolled the beach

Any communication lines they had with the main facility were buried, so there was no way to knock theined Zelimir Kovac had laid out the security, and he would have left standing orders that, at the first sign of anything suspicious, the bunker was to be notified so it could go on immediate lockdown

“Switch to ther,” he said

The scene on the ed, so that nearly every detail dropped out, except for the body heat given off by the guards There were teams of two atop each cliff they hadn’t noticed on the visual scan

“What do you uys on the cliffs?” George asked