Chapter 103
They flew slightly north of a course directly back to where the other chopper had made firing passes on the fugitive. Owens knew Underwood had been turned back on the west side of the ridgeline that cut across the mesa and it didn't seem likely the man had been able to get around that search party. It was too open and they'd been too close when they'd seen him. Then, somehow they'd lost contact with him. Owens made an educated guess and assumed the fugitive had stayed on the eastern side of the saw-toothed ridge. And from the only crossing point the pilots of the chopper had seen, the only way Underwood could go was.... The other ground party was still coming up from the southeast on that side of the ridge, blocking an escape in that direction. The ridge prohibited travel to the west and
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