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“It’s only obvious after you think of it Kind of like finding so Mark’s words back at hio see if you’re right”

THE QUAD BIKE WAS DESIGNED to handle rough terrain, with its extra-large shocks and springs, but Juan was pushing the four-wheeler to its very li scant feet ahead of it, its driver was forced to keep an erratic track, and Juan round quickly

“Chair Repeat, impact in forty-five-minutes”

“I hear you,” Juan said They were now cutting into their in of safety to clear out of the strike zone “I just wish I hadn’t Wepps, I want you to hold fire George, I need you to distract the guy in the back of the truck so I can get close Buzz them”

“Roger”

With a knee pressing him to the pickup’s bed and the barrel of an assault rifle ja around hiuard fired a short burst Max turned his head enough to see that he was firing into the sky The Robinson suddenly flew over the truck, so low that the guard had to duck

Max used the distraction to raroin The bloas clumsy and aard and didn’t seeun around, and Max blocked it with his ared, the bullets sailed harunpowder, Max saw his opportunity and punched the guard’s exposed flank The guard counterpunched Max in the face The renewed agony see wildly, and slowly getting up to his knees to get more power behind his punches

The pickup’s bed was too confined for the guard to bring his assault rifle to bear, so he used it to shove Max off of hiun the side of the truck to keep himself steady

Juan was not more than two feet from the pickup’s rear bumper, on an all-terrain vehicle He was hunched low over the handlebars so the driver couldn’t see hi, as he spoke to either George, still circling overhead, or soon

Max juuard like a professional wrestler, only the elbow he suard’s eyes bulged from his head, and his cheeks expanded as every bit of air in his lungs exploded out of his body

A few seconds later, another round froun hit just in front of the pickup truck The driver slowed and veered left, giving Juan a chance to pull up alongside the vehicle

“Max, stop screwing around and juive Hanley as much room as possible

Max crawled over the rear gate to crouch on the bu it over the saddle seat before throwing his weight He landed solidly, clutching at Juan’s waist to keep himself firmly planted

Nigel, the English guard driving the truck, chose thatthe prisoner was escaping, he swerved toward the ATV, forcing Juan to slael jammed on his, and then when the ATV started to scoot away he went after it

With two big men astride the quad bike, the vehicles were evenly round Juan couldn’t pull more than a few feet ahead of the pickup, and, no matter how sharply he turned, the driver kept with him The Responsivist had to have realized that if he stayed close to the fleeing four-wheeler, the big cannon targeting him wouldn’t fire