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Sa back’s out of the question For now”

“What about the truck?” Re to outrun them”

“No But maybe we can find a better place to make a stand”

“A stand?” Hank said “You can’t be serious”

Sah the binoculars in the opposite direction “What the …”

“Sam?”

He handed Remi the binoculars, then pointed farther up, near the bend in the road “About halfway between here and the trees”

Reaze across the stretch of rutted dirt, at first seeing nothing alar “Empty road”

“Take a closer look”

She adjusted the focus, noticing that what at first glance appeared to be dried brush and leaves strewn across the roadway actually forht for it to be natural Whichchased into an ambush?”

“If I had to guess, the other half of that ambush is just around the bend, by those trees”

“What if we drove around the tack strip?”

“We run into whoever’s waiting for us on the other side”

Re toward them from the opposite direction She looked around for cover With nothing but long grass on either side of the road, they had nowhere to go

And very little time to come up with a plan