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“Suppose we see a ship on the horizon,” he said “We’ll need to intercept it, to get in front of it or at least alongside”
She nodded “Sorry”
He smiled “It’s okay”
In the absence of the droning outboard, the silence felt oppressive and on of their eventual doom There was no wind The only sound that could be heard was the light chop slapping against the sides of the boat
Bathed in this silence, they bobbed up and doing in the loells, three people aboard a sixteen-foot inflatable boat in a million square miles of ocean
“Nohat?” Leilani asked
“Noait,” Kurt said patiently “And see what fortune holds for us”
CHAPTER 39
JOE ZAVALA HAD SPENT FIFTEEN HOURS IN THE CARGO HOLD of an unknown ship with only a group of trucks and untold billions of one stir-crazy and given hiet out Joe had put the tiood use
He’d searched each truck thoroughly He’d found three bottles of water, drinking two of the the third He’d also discovered a plastic Ziploc-style bag filled with sooat or caht have been He ate as much as he could and put the rest back
He’d also measured out the confines, took a look under the hoods of the trucks and come up with several alternate plans of action He’d even considered sabotaging the engines, pulling out distributor wires, ta to loosen the oil plugs so the big rigs either wouldn’t start or would break down shortly after they got going
He chose not to If the trucks couldn’t go, he couldn’t get off the ship If they moved an
d then broke doenty ht be stuck sory militants to boot
He considered breaking out The huge doors were still pinned shut, but Joe was pretty certain he could bash them open with all the horsepower he had available But then what? Based on what he rehter and the thick layer of tire ured he was near the back end of some kind of dedicated transport Almost like an auto ferry
It wasn’t a roll on/roll off ship because there was no front exit, but it was definitely designed for vehicles From the way it ed and swayed he didn’t think it was all that large either, whichhim too far